After updating to the portage-2.0.50_pre16 I consistently get the following error whenever I'm trying to calculate dependencies. It looks like it may have something to do with some ocaml packages I have. # emerge -Dupv world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies -Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2340, in ? if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1085, in xcreate if not self.create(myk): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 785, in create if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 919, in select_dep myeb=portage.portdb.xmatch("bestmatch-visible",x) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4568, in xmatch mydep=dep_expand(origdep,self) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3041, in dep_expand return prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb)+postfix File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2985, in cpv_expand raise ValueError, matches ValueError: ['app-xemacs/ocaml', 'dev-lang/ocaml'] Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. update to portage-2.0.50_pre16 2. emerge -Dupv world Actual Results: portage threw a python exception Expected Results: duh # emerge info Portage 2.0.50_pre16 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040117-r0, 2.6.1-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.phauna.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apache2 avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dga directfb dvd encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif glut gnome gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mozcalendar mozilla moznocompose moznoirc mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg ncurses nptl oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl plotutils png ppds python quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
ValueError: ['app-xemacs/ocaml', 'dev-lang/ocaml'] Make sure you only have the full category listed in your world file and not just 'ocaml' and if you don't have it by itself, submit 'emerge -dDup world 2>&1 | bzip2 -9 - > log.bz2'
I have the full category listed in my world file. But! After looking at the output of emerge -dDup world, I discovered that the problem was in a couple of ebuilds residing in my portage overlay. They were depending on ocaml without qualifying it as dev-lang/ocaml. (Apparently this used to work, with older versions of portage.) After fixing these two, the problem is solved. If you still want the info, I can post it but it's no longer relevant after fixing those two problems. Sorry to waste time!
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