gate etc # emerge -up world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.2 [2.13.90.0.18] [ebuild N ] dev-util/yacc-1.9.1-r1 [ebuild U ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6j [0.9.6i-r2] [ebuild U ] net-www/apache-2.0.47 [1.3.27-r3] [ebuild U ] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r5 [0.00-r4] [ebuild U ] net-mail/sendmail-8.12.9-r2 [8.12.9] [ebuild U ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.4 [2.1.3-r2] [ebuild U ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.0-r2 [2.1] !!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/xft) gate etc # Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 0. emerge sync 1. emerge -up world Actual Results: gate etc # emerge -up world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.2 [2.13.90.0.18] [ebuild N ] dev-util/yacc-1.9.1-r1 [ebuild U ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6j [0.9.6i-r2] [ebuild U ] net-www/apache-2.0.47 [1.3.27-r3] [ebuild U ] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r5 [0.00-r4] [ebuild U ] net-mail/sendmail-8.12.9-r2 [8.12.9] [ebuild U ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.4 [2.1.3-r2] [ebuild U ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.0-r2 [2.1] !!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/xft) gate etc # Expected Results: given me a longer list of packages gate etc # emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - S 1266MHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/conf ig /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gpm gtk imlib jpeg kde gnome libg++ mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis pdflib png quicktime sdl spell svga truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline java mysql X tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python qt opengl" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" gate etc #
Two files are created in the working directory where the emerge is performed on. These files are called '0' and '1' respectively and are both 0 bytes long.
Fixed in 48-r7