when trying to emerge eclipse-sdk-3.2.1-r3, it says: # emerge -vp eclipse-sdk These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies | emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-java/junit-4*". (dependency required by "dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.2.1-r3" [ebuild]) and indeed, there's no such junit ebuild: # ls /usr/portage/dev-java/junit ChangeLog files junit-3.8.1-r3.ebuild junit-3.8.2.ebuild junit-3.8.2-r1.ebuild Manifest metadata.xml Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to emerge eclipse-sdk 2. see that it won't, because of missing junit ebuild 3. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.12 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-suspend2-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-suspend2-r6 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p15-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.32 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/jetty/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en hu ja" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/overlay1 /usr/local/portage/wolf31o2 /home/maroy/src/tyrell/src/corpora/tmote/src/tinyos-2-overlay /home/maroy/src/euedge/src/sparta/var/java-experimental /usr/local/portage/lu_zero" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aiglx alsa amd amd64 anthy automount avahi avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups dbus dhcp dlloader dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac gdbm gif gimpprint glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal http ical iconv ieee1394 immqt-bc ipv6 irda isdnlog java javacomm jpeg kerberos lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libnotify live logrotate mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 msn mudflap mysql ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin obex ogg openal opengl openmp oracle oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl player png postgres postscript ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtsp sdl session smp sms spell spl sse sse2 ssl stream svg tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode urandom usb v4l v4l2 vim vorbis wma x264 xml xorg xprint xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev joystick keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en hu ja" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fglrx radeon v4l vesa vmware fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
hm, it seems eclipse-sdk-3.2.1-r3 is coming from a portage overlay. the latest in the real portage tree is -r2, not -r3