Portage claims: --- !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all !!! masked or don't exist: net-im/telepathy-kde-meta --- eix claims: --- [I] net-im/telepathy-kde-meta [1] Available versions: (4) (**)9999 --- emerge -pv telepathy-kde-meta reveals: --- emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "net-voip/telepathy-connection-managers". (dependency required by "net-im/telepathy-kde-meta-9999" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "telepathy-kde-meta" [argument]) --- -> IMO the message "[...] either all masked or don't exist" is misleading, because it suggests that the package itself is masked or missing, while actually one of its dependencies is gone. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.2.0_alpha77 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.6.2, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.1.1-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.1.1-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_5000+-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:15:01 +0000 distcc 3.2rc1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p10 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.2.2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.6-r3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo kde sunrise local Installed sets: @kdebase ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=athlon64-sse3 -ftree-vectorize" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /var/lib/neatx/home" 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-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/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="-pipe -O2 -march=athlon64-sse3 -ftree-vectorize" DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--depclean-lib-check n --with-bdeps y --keep-going" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ " LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="xz" 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="/var/cache/portage/gentoo" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/cache/portage/layman/kde /var/cache/portage/layman/sunrise /var/cache/portage/local" [...] Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Are you sure that it's not masked? 9999 ebuilds are typically masked by keywords. Have you unmasked it with /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords or something? I suspect that the following command will show you a masking message: emerge -p --nodeps net-im/telepathy-kde-meta
(In reply to comment #1) > Are you sure that it's not masked? 9999 ebuilds are typically masked by > keywords. Have you unmasked it with /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords or > something? For demonstration I just undid my fix to the ebuild and set again: RDEPEND="... net-voip/telepathy-connection-managers" like it was this morning. net-voip/telepathy-connection-managers does not exist, neither in mainline nor in any of the overlays, including the kde overlay where net-im/telepathy-kde-meta is from. emerge -uDN @world -pv shows again: !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all !!! masked or don't exist: net-im/telepathy-kde-meta > I suspect that the following command will show you a masking message: > > emerge -p --nodeps net-im/telepathy-kde-meta [ebuild R *] net-im/telepathy-kde-meta-9999 Without --nodeps it shows: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "net-voip/telepathy-connection-managers". (dependency required by "net-im/telepathy-kde-meta-9999" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "telepathy-kde-meta" [argument]) Setting RDEPEND="... net-im/telepathy-connection-managers" makes the messages go away.
P.S: telepathy-kde-meta is keyword masked, but unmasked via /etc/portage/package.keywords/file: #required by net-im/telepathy-kde-meta (argument) >=net-im/telepathy-kde-meta-9999 ** There exists also: #required by net-im/telepathy-kde-meta-9999, required by net-im/telepathy-kde-meta (argument) # move net-im/telepathy-accounts-kcm-plugins net-voip/telepathy-connection-managers >=net-voip/telepathy-connection-managers-9999 **
It seems like this behavior could be triggered by backtracking, since it will create a temporary mask for packages that have unsatisfied dependencies.
