Using Portage 2.2.00.11472-prefix then the following will fail emerge -u gettext with a traceback from portage. This is due to a method (isMasterLink) referencing an unknown variable obj_key. portage.dbapi.vartree:LinkageMapMachO.isMasterLink looks like this ... def isMasterLink(self, obj): " ... doc string removed ..." basename = os.path.basename(obj) if obj_key not in self._obj_properties: raise KeyError("%s (%s) not in object list" % (obj_key, obj)) install_name = self._obj_properties[obj_key][1] return (len(basename) < len(os.path.basename(install_name))) It should probably line added at the beginning ... obj_key = self._ObjectKey(obj) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u gettext 2. 3. Actual Results: >>> Installing sys-devel/gettext-0.17 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Volumes/MacData/Users/derek/gentoo/usr/bin/emerge", line 20, in <module> retval = _emerge.emerge_main() ... File "/Volumes/MacData/Users/derek/gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 2965, in _preserve_libs if linkmap.isMasterLink(lib): File "/Volumes/MacData/Users/derek/gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 898, in isMasterLink if obj_key not in self._obj_properties: NameError: global name 'obj_key' is not defined Portage 2.2.00.11472-prefix (default-prefix/darwin/macos/10.4/x86, gcc-4.0.1, unavailable, 8.11.1 i386) ================================================================= System uname: Darwin-8.11.1-i386-32bit Timestamp of tree: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:31:31 +0000 distcc 2.18.3-Apple.1 powerpc-apple-darwin8.0 (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r04.3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86-macos" CBUILD="i686-apple-darwin8" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" CHOST="i686-apple-darwin8" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" DISTDIR="/Volumes/MacData/Users/derek/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles" EPREFIX="/Volumes/MacData/Users/derek/gentoo" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks nostrip parallel-fetch preserve-libs sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="" PKGDIR="/Volumes/MacData/Users/derek/gentoo/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/Volumes/MacData/Users/derek/gentoo/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/Volumes/MacData/Users/derek/gentoo/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/Volumes/MacData/Users/derek/gentoo/usr/portage/local/layman/prefix-users" SYNC="rsync://rsync.prefix.freens.org/gentoo-portage-prefix" USE="aqua coreaudio cracklib midi mmx mmxext ncurses nls objc objc++ prefix readline sse sse2 ssl unicode x86-macos zlib" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="Darwin" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="Darwin" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Indeed, thanks! Released in portage-2.2.00.11477.