Updating tox to the latest unstable version does not work for me: # emerge -av "=tox-1.7.1" These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.accept_keywords" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by dev-python/virtualenv-1.11.6 # required by dev-python/tox-1.7.1 # required by =tox-1.7.1 (argument) =dev-python/setuptools-5.1 ~amd64 # required by dev-python/pytest-2.5.2 # required by dev-python/tox-1.7.1 # required by =tox-1.7.1 (argument) =dev-python/py-1.4.20 ~amd64 # required by dev-python/tox-1.7.1 # required by =tox-1.7.1 (argument) =dev-python/pytest-2.5.2 ~amd64 # required by dev-python/tox-1.7.1 # required by =tox-1.7.1 (argument) =dev-python/pip-1.5.6 ~amd64 # required by dev-python/tox-1.7.1 # required by =tox-1.7.1 (argument) =dev-python/virtualenv-1.11.6 ~amd64 Use --autounmask-write to write changes to config files (honoring CONFIG_PROTECT). Carefully examine the list of proposed changes, paying special attention to mask or keyword changes that may expose experimental or unstable packages. emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "virtual/python-argparse[python_targets_python2_6(-)?,python_targets_python2_7(-)?,python_targets_python3_2(-)?,python_targets_python3_3(-)?,python_targets_python3_4(-)?,python_targets_pypy(-)?,-python_single_target_python2_6(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_2(-),-python_single_target_python3_3(-),-python_single_target_python3_4(-),-python_single_target_pypy(-)]". !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-python/pytest-2.5.2::gentoo (Change USE: -python_targets_python3_4) (dependency required by "dev-python/pytest-2.5.2" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "dev-python/tox-1.7.1" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "=tox-1.7.1" [argument])
Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.12.21-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.12.21-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2640M_CPU_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 8069396 total, 4643016 free KiB Swap: 10238972 total, 10238972 free Timestamp of tree: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.6, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.3, 3.4.0 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.13 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: gentoo science cel_overlay ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.0/conf /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/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="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://de-mirror.org/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/science /home/ch/repositories/cel_overlay" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi acpo alsa amd64 apache2 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dell dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk iconv iee1394 ipv6 java jpeg kde kipi laptop lcdfilter lcms ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf phonon php plasma png policykit ppds python qt3support qt4 readline sdl semantic-desktop session spell sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg tcpd threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l v4l2 vorbis wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" 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 ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics mouse keyboard v4l" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de en_US en" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 python3_3 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" 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" USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.2 3.3" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC
It looks like as if the python3_4 target simply gets ignored: Good: # PYTHON_TARGETS=python3_3 emerge -pv python-argparse::gentoo These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] virtual/python-argparse-1 PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_3 (-pypy) (-python2_6) -python2_7* -python3_2* (-python3_4)" 0 kB These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Bad: # PYTHON_TARGETS=python3_4 emerge -pv python-argparse::gentoo These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] virtual/python-argparse-1 PYTHON_TARGETS="(-pypy) (-python2_6) -python2_7* -python3_2* -python3_3* (-python3_4)" 0 kB Expected: python3_4 target enabled. Observed: python3_4 target ignored. Can someone please try to reproduce this error? Is there some dark masking magic involved?
This issue is caused by use.stable.mask masking python_targets_python_3_4. Unmasking python3_4 in /etc/portage/profile/use.stable.mask will solve this issue. Thanks to mgorny for pointing this out on IRC.