I ran equery on a package recently after emerge --sync'ing and the error came up: --- WARNING: Package 'media-video/dirac-9999999' uses '-*' keyword. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --sync 2. equery depends media-sound/alsaplayer Actual Results: # equery depends media-sound/alsaplayer [ Searching for packages depending on media-sound/alsaplayer... ] --- WARNING: Package 'media-video/dirac-9999999' uses '-*' keyword. Expected Results: The warning shouldn't appear. Portage 2.2_rc11 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-reiser4-r3 x86_64) Timestamp of tree: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:19:01 +0000
Please post your (entire) `emerge --info'. Also, explain from which overlay you got this live ebuild - there isn't such an ebuild in the official tree...
# emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc11 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.7-r2, 2.6.24-reiser4-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.24-reiser4-r3-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual-Core_Processor_TK-53-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:19:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -maccumulate-outgoing-args" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -maccumulate-outgoing-args" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="en ja" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/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="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects /usr/portage/local/layman/zugaina /usr/local/portage /usr/local/initng-portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb cli cracklib crypt cups dbus doc dri encode flac ftp gdbm gif gpm hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde midi mmx mmxext mp2 mp3 mp4 mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 readline reflection samba session speex spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd tga theora threads truetype unicode vim-syntax vorbis x264 xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc 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="dmix plug dsnoop empty hooks null rate route softvol asym" 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" CAMERAS="canon" ELIBC="glibc" INITNG_PLUGINS="also bash_launcher chdir chroot conflict cpout critical ctrlaltdel daemon_clean debug_commands envparser find fmon fstat history idleprobe initctl interactive iparser last limit lockfile logfile netdev netprobe ngc4 ngcs nge pause provide reload renice rlparser simple_launcher stcmd stdout suid syncron syslog sysreq unneeded usplash" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics ps2mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ja" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev nv nvidia vesa vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I didn't even think that the package would be in an overlay. It's in the zugaina layman overlay, it seems: # eix -e media-video/dirac * media-video/dirac Available versions: 1.0.0 -*9999999[1] {debug doc mmx} Homepage: http://dirac.sourceforge.net/ Description: Open Source video codec [1] "zugaina" /usr/portage/local/layman/zugaina
I suggest you seek support from the overlay's maintainers. Contrary to the texton the website, asking Gentoo to fix an overlay's problems is invalid.
Sorry, wrong reason.
