Unable to update workstations with binary packages exclusively. I have 4 workstations that I've been updating via binary packages only. But latley when I attempt to upgrade the system/world packages portage either fails or does the wrong thing. Example 1, the output of a standard upgrade operation: perry root # emerge -pu system These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating system dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.10-r1 [1.8.6.10] [ebuild U ] net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r1 [1.3.22_p4] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.6-r3 [2.14.90.0.6-r1] [ebuild U ] app-editors/vim-core-6.2-r4 [6.2-r3] [ebuild U ] app-editors/vim-6.2-r3 [6.2-r2] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r4 [5.0-r3] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/file-4.03 [4.02] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-1.5m [1.5l-r6] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/procps-3.1.12 [3.1.11] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/psmisc-21.2-r4 [21.2-r3] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/which-2.16 [2.14] [ebuild U ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7b-r2 [0.9.6j] [ebuild U ] net-mail/ssmtp-2.60.4 [2.60.3] [ebuild N ] app-admin/skey-1.1.5 [ebuild U ] net-misc/openssh-3.7.1_p1-r1 [3.6.1_p2-r2] [ebuild U ] sys-fs/devfsd-1.3.25-r5 [1.3.25-r4] That is to be expected. But we don't build on the workstations, so we attempt to install packages like so: perry root # emerge -puk system These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating system dependencies ...done! [binary R ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r5 [binary U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.10-r1 [1.8.6.10] [binary U ] net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r1 [1.3.22_p4] [binary R ] sys-devel/gettext-0.11.5-r1 [binary U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.6-r3 [2.14.90.0.6-r1] [binary R ] dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r1 [binary R ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r4 [ebuild U ] app-editors/vim-core-6.2-r4 [6.2-r3] [ebuild U ] app-editors/vim-6.2-r3 [6.2-r2] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2073, in ? mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1058, in display if (myoldslot==mynewslot) and portage.pkgcmp(portage.pkgsplit(x[2]), portage.pkgsplit(myoldbest)) < 0: File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2252, in pkgcmp r1=string.atoi(pkg1[2][1:]) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/string.py", line 225, in atoi return _int(s, base) ValueError: invalid literal for int(): r1 That, of course, is not what's supposed to happen. So I try with individual package names like so: perry root # emerge -puk baselayout dhcpcd binutils vim-core vim coreutils file man procps psmisc which openssl ssmtp skey openssh devfsd These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [binary R ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r5 [binary U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.10-r1 [1.8.6.10] [binary U ] net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r1 [1.3.22_p4] [binary R ] sys-devel/gettext-0.11.5-r1 [binary U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.6-r3 [2.14.90.0.6-r1] [binary R ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r4 [ebuild U ] app-editors/vim-core-6.2-r4 [6.2-r3] [binary R ] dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r1 [ebuild U ] app-editors/vim-6.2-r3 [6.2-r2] [binary U ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r4 [5.0-r3] [binary U ] sys-apps/file-4.03 [4.02] [binary R ] sys-apps/groff-1.18.1-r3 [binary U ] sys-apps/man-1.5m [1.5l-r6] [binary U ] sys-apps/procps-3.1.12 [3.1.11] [binary U ] sys-apps/psmisc-21.2-r4 [21.2-r3] [binary R ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.6 [binary U ] sys-apps/which-2.16 [2.14] [binary U ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7b-r2 [0.9.6j] [binary R ] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r6 [binary U ] net-mail/ssmtp-2.60.4 [2.60.3] [binary N ] app-admin/skey-1.1.5 [binary R ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3-r7 [binary U ] net-misc/openssh-3.7.1_p1-r1 [3.6.1_p2-r2] [binary U ] sys-fs/devfsd-1.3.25-r5 [1.3.25-r4] What's with all the re-installs? I'm not sure what's happening here, I've deleted many uneeded packages from my binary directory and still the same result. Hopefully someone has some insight. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Build packages on seperate machine 2. Attempt to upgrade 2nd machine via emerge -puk system 3. Fail Portage 2.0.49-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-ck6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-ck6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz distcc 2.10 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.2 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/mnt/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sandbox strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.noved.org/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/mnt/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://192.168.10.198/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib nas bonobo svga tcltk java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla ldap cdr scanner acpi acpi4linux amd apache2 artswrappersuid autofs cjk clamav curl dga dnd dvb dvd emacs evo faad fbcon fbdev fltk gb gd gnomedb gtk2 imagemagick imap innodb ipv6 jack jack-tmpfs jikes junit ladcca mbox mcal mdb memlimit milter mozaccess mozcalendar mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpi oav oci8 odbc offensive pda pic ppds samba skey snmp sox sse tiff transcode type1 usb v4l vim-with-x wmf X509 xface xfs xinerama xml xosd xvid"
I can confirm the brokage
This should be resolved in current releases.
