I been currently chasing my system fixing broken packages due to a portage update which brought in the new xorg-server 1.7 Very strange the libgl.so.1 seems to have broken throughout the system i think i fixed it by doing eselect opengl set xorg-x11 being as the ati-drivers are blocked. but even stranger is that things started to fail like dominos what i mean is that emerge --update world brought in packages such as gnome-session app-admin/gnome-system-tools app-admin/system-tools-backends which were reported to me masked by x86 keyword so i unmasked them satisfied there dependencies which exploded after they were installed with the loss of libgl.so.1 again. running revdep-rebuild caused files to be rebuilt again failing to find this libgl.so again i run eselect opengl set xorg-x11 seems now to be compiling with less errors yet gave me something else it told me i needed policykit use flag i added it and it brought in sys-apps/devicekit-power if i remember correctly. Next i thought well new dependency big deal it then got stuck on dev-python/PyQt saying there were no ebuilds lol. i manually went crazy and uninstalled the installed version and re processed revdep-rebuild seems it don't call pyqt anymore. Could this be a bug in portage not being able to handle installed vs new packages. If this is normal then hey ignore this. I just found this a strange behavior for portage. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Find and install dev-python/PyQt try get revdep-rebuild to need it and try install policykit with the use flag in make.conf unmask sys-auth/consolekit app-admin/gnome-system-tools app-admin/system-tools-backends sys-apps/devicekit-power As this is what it asks for 2.PyQT would say it cant be found does not exist as a valid atom against current portage and policykit wont allow downgrading or let you remove the policykit flag. app-admin/system-tools-backends only now finds 2.28 and if you remove it from keywords it wont have any of the lower version, it becomes addicted to the higher version without offering you the unmasked version 3.needs manual uninstall eg emerge -C before revdep-rebuild will continue for the PyQT. Cant step the sys-auth/consolekit app-admin/gnome-system-tools app-admin/system-tools-backends sys-apps/devicekit-power Backwards seems they have stuck themselves in there Actual Results: revdep-rebuild is actually finishing it process as i type this without errors/call die signals which has now completed ok. Off to emerge --update world Expected Results: A long twisted winding road to repair system after the latest portage update of world I am sure certain faults were related to ati-drivers being blocked but why the strange portage behavior surely portage should remove or upgrade packages that are removed from the portage tree or as i usually found there is a news item telling you to remove and or upgrade PyQT i am referring to for this one. I have no idea about whats up with the versioning on sys-auth/consolekit app-admin/gnome-system-tools app-admin/system-tools-backends sys-apps/devicekit-power but hey we shall see after i come to update world after revdep-rebuild Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r7f1r31c3r i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r7f1r31c3r-i686-Intel-R-_Xeon-TM-_CPU_3.06GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0_beta1 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /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/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news nostrip parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.virginmedia.com/sites/gentoo " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_GB en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa ao apic asyncns audiofile autoipd automount avahi berkdb bluetooth bts bzip2 cairo caps cdio cdr cdrkit cdrtools cid clflush cli cmov consolekit cracklib crypt css cue cups cupsddk cx8 cxx dbus de desktop dga directfb djconsole dri dri2 dts dvb dvd dvdr emerald encode esd evdev extras fax fbcon fbcondecor ffmpeg fglrx flac fluidsynth flv fontconfig fortran fpu fuse fxsr gd gdbm gecko glib glitz gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal hifieq howl-compat hpcups hplip ht http iconv ipv6 jack jce jpeg jpeg2k kde ladspa lame lcms ldap libburn libmms libnotify libsamplerate live lyrics lzo makt mca mce mdnsresponder-compat mmx mmxext mng modplug modules mp3 msn msr mtrr mudflap musepack mysql nano-syntax nas nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin obex odbc ogg openal opengl openmp oss pae pam pbe pcre perl pge php pipe png policykit ppds pppd pse pse36 pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 quicktime radeon radeonhd readline record recording reflection render samba scanner sdl sep session sid slp snmp spl sql sqlite ss sse sse2 ssl svg svga sysfs system-wide tcpd templates theora threads tiff tm truetype tsc udev unicode v4l v4l2 vme vorbis wavpack webkit win32codecs wine winetools wininstallers x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xml xorg xrender xscreensaver xtpr xtrap xv xvid zip 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 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" LINGUAS="en_GB en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonhd v4l vesa virtualbox" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I don't see any bugs here. PyQt was removed from Portage.. polkit blocks and replaces older policykit.. ati/amd has failed by not providing supported drivers in time, use xf86-video-ati instead.. and so on
