Bug 53588 – x11-terms/xterm-191 failes after building x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0 while trying to calculate dependencies

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Vince Parsons 2004-06-10 15:43:32 UTC]

Command: USE="truetype -Xaw3d -unicode" x11-terms/xterm-191

It should be noted that this is a fresh install of Gentoo 2004.1.
The base system is installed without incident. This problem occured when istalling X.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge x11-base/xorg-x11
or
2. emerge x11-terms/xterms-191

Actual Results:  
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies
!!! Problem in x11-terms/xterm-191 dependencies.
!!! "Specific key requires an operator (x11-terms/xterm-191) (try adding an '=')"



Xfree86 was not installed.

There were no extraordinary programs running at the time of the build.
 sshd
 gpm

Emerge Info:
Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040529-r0,
2.6.5-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 x86_64 4
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2"
CHOST="x86_64-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 /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/
http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.llarian.net/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X amd64 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm
gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls nogcj oggvorbis
opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl
tcpd truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Sven Wegener 2004-06-10 15:49:25 UTC]

Use

emerge '=x11-terms/xterms-191'

when you want emerge to merge a specific version of a package.

[Comment 2 Vince Parsons 2004-06-10 16:01:47 UTC]

I was able to emerge xterm-191 by issuing the following command:
emerge =xterm-191
Did not recieve any errors.

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2004-06-10 16:14:51 UTC]

soooooooooo PEBCAK, it's not even funny.