If I do 'g-octave -v gsl', it works with the output: root@moose:/root(29)# g-octave -v gsl These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] g-octave/gsl-1.0.8 0 kB [1] Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [1] /var/lib/g-octave >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Emerging (1 of 1) g-octave/gsl-1.0.8 from g-octave * gsl-1.0.8.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * g-octave_Makefile RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * g-octave_configure RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * Package: g-octave/gsl-1.0.8 * Repository: g-octave * Maintainer: root@moose * USE: amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib userland_GNU >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking gsl-1.0.8.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/g-octave/gsl-1.0.8/work ... --- replaced dir /usr * Rebuilding the Octave package database. >>> Original instance of package unmerged safely. * Registering g-octave/gsl-1.0.8 on the Octave package database. >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. If I try 'g-octave -vu gsl', it fails with: root@moose:/root(30)# g-octave -vu gsl * Ebuild class error - Package not found: /gsl-1.0.8 * If you fell that this is a bug, please report to us. * Mail to: rafael@rafaelmartins.eng.br Reproducible: Always root@moose:/root(31)# emerge --info octave Portage 2.1.9.20 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.1, glibc-2.12.1-r1, 2.6.35-gentoo-r10 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.35-gentoo-r10-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9650_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r2, 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r2, 4.5.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.82 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.35 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL dlj-1.1 skype-eula googleearth AdobeFlash-10.1 cadsoft" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /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/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="de fr" MAKEOPTS="-j5" 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="/var/lib/layman/science /var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/layman/java-overlay /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/arcon /var/lib/layman/pro-audio /var/lib/layman/n4g /var/lib/layman/qting-edge /usr/local/portage /var/lib/cpan" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="64bit R X Xaw3d a52 aac abiword acl acpi admin afs alsa amd64 ao apache2 applet archive arpack asf aspell assistant audacious audiofile automap automount bash-completion beagle berkdb blas blast bluetooth boo boost branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cg cgi chm cli consolekit corba cracklib crypt css cuda cups curl cxx daap db dbase dbi dbm dbus designer devhelp device-mapper dga dia djvu doc dri ds2490 ds9097 ds9097u dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dynamicplugin eds elf emacs emboss empathy encode epiphany evo examples exif expat extensions extra extras fam fame ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fpx fts3 fuse galago garmin gd gdal gdbm gedit geoip geolocation geos gif gimp ginac git glade glib gml gmp gmtsuppl gnokii gnome gnome-keyring gnome-print gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm grammar graphics graphtft graphviz grass gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk guile hal harness hddtemp hdf hdf5 hdri hlapi http httpd hvm iconv icq icu id3 ide imagemagick imap innodb inotify ipod ipv6 irda ithreads jabber jadetex java java5 java6 jbig john jpeg jpeg2k kdrive kerberos kpathsea kqemu kvm ladspa lame lapack latex latex3 lcms ldap lensfun libffi libgda libnotify libsamplerate lirc lm_sensors lua lzo mad mail maildir mailwrapper mapnik math matroska mikmod mkl mmx mmxext mng modules mono moonlight motif mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mplayer mtp mudflap multilib musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses neXt netcdf netpbm network networking networkmanager nfs nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ntp numarray numeric nvidia obex objc ocaml octave odbc ogdi ogg ole openexr opengl openmp overview pae pam pango pcre pda pdf perl plotutils plugins png podcast policykit posix postgres postscript ppds pppd preview-latex proj projectx pstricks pulseaudio pymol python python-bindings q16 q32 qemu qhull qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs reports rle romio rpc rrdcgi rrdtool samba sasl science sdl secure-delete semantic-desktop server session sip slang slp smbclient smp sms sndfile snmp soup sox speex spell sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stlport subtitles subversion suexec svg swig sysfs szip t1lib tcl tcpd tex tex4ht texmacs theora threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk tntc tools truetype udev unicode usb userlocales utempter v4l2 virtualbox vorbis wav webdav webdav-serf webkit wifi wmf wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xemacs xext xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi" 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" CAMERAS="canon" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev " KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de fr" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport cnd dlight enterprise ergonomics groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler ruby websvccommon xml" PHP_TARGETS="php-5.2" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 ppc ppc64 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 jruby" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia nouveau vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sci-mathematics/octave-3.2.4-r3 was built with the following: USE="curl doc emacs fftw fltk (multilib) opengl readline xemacs zlib -sparse -test" root@moose:/root(32)# emerge --info g-octave Portage 2.1.9.20 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.1, glibc-2.12.1-r1, 2.6.35-gentoo-r10 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.35-gentoo-r10-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9650_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4 ... Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= app-portage/g-octave-0.4 was built with the following: USE="doc (multilib) -test"
From g-octave --help: -u, --update try to update a package or all the installed packages gsl-1.0.8 is the latest version available for this package. I don't know why you are trying to update it. g-octave _tries_ to be similar to emerge, but there's no guarantee on this. Please read the documentation at http://doc.g-octave.org or emerge g-octave with USE=doc. Anyway the error message looks wrong and will be fixed soon. Thanks!
