app-portage/esearch-0.7.1 does not work with sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.4 (sync removed from it). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge esearch 2. esync -v Actual Results: /usr/lib/portage/pym/output.py:39: DeprecationWarning: DEPRECATION NOTICE: The output module was replaced by portage.output * Importing old portage tree * Doing '/usr/bin/emerge sync' now Calculating dependencies ... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "sync". Expected Results: /usr/lib/portage/pym/output.py:39: DeprecationWarning: DEPRECATION NOTICE: The output module was replaced by portage.output * Importing old portage tree * Doing '/usr/bin/emerge --sync' now Also this problem discussed in Bug 124601
This is fixed in esearch-0.7.1-r5