n22 ~ # emerge --keep-going --nospinner --newuse --update --ask --verbose --deep --tree --with-bdeps=y world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ..... done! [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.28.9 [2.6.29.4] USE="-build -symlink" 51,600 kB Total: 1 package (1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 51,600 kB Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] No Quitting. Reproducible: Always n22 ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.29.4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29.4-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1700MHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:15:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 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: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-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/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.muntinternet.net/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ http://mirror.muntinternet.net/pub/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j 2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo exif fam fastbuild firefox fortran gdbm geoip gif gmp gpm gstreamer gtk hyphenation iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kdeprefix libnotify mad mbox midi mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff tk truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard evdev mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Do you have something like sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.28* in your world file?
(In reply to comment #1) > Do you have something like sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.28* in your world > file? > only this : n22 /var/lib/portage # grep sources world sys-kernel/vanilla-sources and I have this defined : n22 /var/lib/portage # grep -Hir sources /etc/portage/* /etc/portage/package.keywords/misc:=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.29.4 /etc/portage/package.mask/kde-4.2-mask.txt:kde-base/kdepim-kresources:4.2
Anything else what could be wrong with my world file ?
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