Apologies if this is not a portage problem but I've not noticed this before until I upgraded (today) to 2.1.6.4. There isn't much more to it than the summary and the results fields. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -uDav phppgadmin results in failure in description 2. emerge -uDav world works (again, see description) Actual Results: cyglon01 cygnetcs.com # emerge -uDav phppgadmin libgamin gam-server gamin These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=dev-php/mod_php-4.1". (dependency required by "dev-db/phppgadmin-3.4" [installed]) (dependency required by "phppgadmin" [argument]) Expected Results: cyglon01 cygnetcs.com # emerge -uDav world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild NS ] dev-db/phppgadmin-4.2.2 [3.4, 3.5.1, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 4.0.1, 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.2.1] USE="vhosts" 650 kB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10 USE="python -debug" 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-admin/gam-server-0.1.10 USE="-debug" 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-admin/gamin-0.1.10 [0.1.9-r1] USE="(-debug%) (-python%*)" 0 kB [blocks b ] <app-admin/gamin-0.1.10 ("<app-admin/gamin-0.1.10" is blocking app-admin/gam-server-0.1.10, dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10) Total: 4 packages (1 upgrade, 2 new, 1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 650 kB Conflict: 1 block Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] yes >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Starting parallel fetch >>> Emerging (1 of 4) dev-db/phppgadmin-4.2.2 >>> Downloading 'http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/distfiles/phpPgAdmin-4.2.2.tar.bz2' --2009-01-06 13:54:50-- http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/distfiles/phpPgAdmin-4.2.2.tar.bz2 Resolving gentoo.virginmedia.com... 194.117.143.72, 194.117.143.70, 194.117.143.71 Connecting to gentoo.virginmedia.com|194.117.143.72|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 664619 (649K) [application/x-bzip2] Saving to: `/usr/portage/distfiles/phpPgAdmin-4.2.2.tar.bz2' 100%[=================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 664,619 --.-K/s in 0.1s 2009-01-06 13:54:50 (4.41 MB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/phpPgAdmin-4.2.2.tar.bz2' saved [664619/664619] * phpPgAdmin-4.2.2.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * * Using dev-lang/php-5.2.8-r1 * * Checking for required PHP feature(s) ... >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking phpPgAdmin-4.2.2.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/dev-db/phppgadmin-4.2.2/work >>> Source unpacked. Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-hardened-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.23-hardened-r4-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.6-r6, 2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" 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/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache confcache distlocks fixpackages keepobj parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/ http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl apache2 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cdb cli cracklib crypt curl dri examples exim expat fam fastcgi flash fortran ftp gd gdbm gmp gpm hpn iconv imap ipv6 isdnlog jpeg maildir mailwrapper mcal mhash midi mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre pdf pear-db perl pic png postgres pppd python readline reflection ruby session spl sse ssl sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode vhosts vim-syntax x86 xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 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 mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 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 dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
The first command triggers "greedy" --update behavior as requested in bug 150361. This causes all slots of phppgadmin to be pulled into the dependency graph. The second command does not trigger greedy --update behavior because it's operating on the world set. In portage-2.2, it's possible to configure sets such as world to enable greedy behavior, via /etc/portage/sets.conf (feature added for bug 198200).
You should probably uninstall dev-db/phppgadmin-3.4, since it's outdated and it's dependencies cannot be satisfied. Note that you can use emerge --depclean to find all such packages and remove them. Closing as invalid since emerge is behaving as designed.
