emerge dev-util/mercurial results: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-util/mercurial-9999 USE="-bash-completion -bugzilla -emacs -gpg -test -tk -zsh-completion" * Error: circular dependencies: ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-util/mercurial-9999', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-util/mercurial-9999', 'merge') (buildtime) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge mercurial Actual Results: tiny ~ # emerge mercurial * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-util/mercurial-9999 USE="-bash-completion -bugzilla -emacs -gpg -test -tk -zsh-completion" * Error: circular dependencies: ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-util/mercurial-9999', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-util/mercurial-9999', 'merge') (buildtime) * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies. * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. tiny ~ # Expected Results: should install tried by adding to /etc/portage/package.keywords: dev-util/mercurial **
tiny ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/arm/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.32-rc2 armv5tel) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-rc2-armv5tel-Feroceon_88FR131_rev_1_-v5l-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 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="arm" CBUILD="armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi" CFLAGS="-Os -march=armv5te -pipe" CHOST="armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=armv5te -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl arm berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl sysfs tcpd unicode xorg zlib" 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 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" 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 mach64 mga nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vga 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 tiny ~ #
dev-util/mercurial-9999 is a live ebuild, which means that it doesn't fetch an tarball but the sources from a version control system. In this case mercurial. So you need mercurial installed to fetch it. First install some other version: emerge -av =dev-util/mercurial-1.3.1-r1 (you might need to unmask this one too) and then emerge -av =dev-util/mercurial-9999 If you simply need any version of mercurial you could add =dev-util/mercurial-1.3.1-r1 ** to /etc/portage/package.keywords and do emerge -av dev-util/mercurial
Excellent. Here are the commands I ran in accordance with your instructions: autounmask dev-util/mercurial-1.3.1-r1 emerge -av =dev-util/mercurial-1.3.1-r1 autounmask dev-util/mercurial-9999 emerge -av =dev-util/mercurial-9999 Thank you very much!
