This is a silly bug that wasted my time. :) %% cd $OVERLAY/app-portage/eix/ %% ebuild --debug eix-0.20.4.ebuild digest %% echo $? 1 %% emerge -av1 eix WARNING: One or more repositories have been ignored due to duplicate profiles/repo_name entries: (u'/', u'gentoo', u'/srv/nfs-homedirs/jolexa/sandbox/gentoo-x86') overrides /usr/portage All profiles/repo_name entries must be unique in order to avoid having duplicates ignored. Set PORTAGE_REPO_DUPLICATE_WARN="0" in /etc/make.conf if you would like to disable this warning. superuser access is required... adding --pretend to options These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "app-portage/eix" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - app-portage/eix-0.20.4 (masked by: corruption) - app-portage/eix-0.20.3 (masked by: corruption) - app-portage/eix-0.20.2 (masked by: corruption) - app-portage/eix-0.20.1 (masked by: corruption) - app-portage/eix-0.19.2 (masked by: corruption) - app-portage/eix-0.17.0 (masked by: corruption) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. %% rm -rf $OVERLAY/profiles/ %% ebuild eix-0.20.4.ebuild digest >>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/eix-0.20.4.tar.xz' --2010-04-22 17:17:25-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/eix-0.20.4.tar.xz Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 199.6.1.174, 204.152.191.39, 216.165.129.135, <snip> %% echo $? 0