After unzipping the boinc ebuild found here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54962 into /usr/portage/app-sci to create a boinc subdirectory and then trying to emerge boinc with "emerge boinc-20040902" emerge will fail with the following error message: Calculating world dependencies Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2522, in ? if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1114, in xcreate myeb=portage.portdb.xmatch("bestmatch-visible",mydep) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4700, in xmatch myval=best(self.xmatch("match-visible",None,mydep,mykey)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4711, in xmatch myval=match_from_list(mydep,self.xmatch("list-visible",None,mydep,mykey)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4697, in xmatch myval=self.gvisible(self.visible(self.cp_list(mykey))) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4807, in gvisible if db["/"]["porttree"].dbapi.xmatch("bestmatch-list", mykey, None, None, [mycpv]): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4704, in xmatch myval=best(match_from_list(mydep,mylist)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3536, in match_from_list raise KeyError, "Specific key requires an operator (%s) (try adding an '=')" % (mydep) KeyError: "Specific key requires an operator (app-sci/boinc-3.20) (try adding an '=')" After this, trying to use emerge for anything else will cause this message to appear. This is similar to the problem found in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40831 but after trying those solutions this problem still occurs. Tried solutions: removing the entire portage tree and resyncing. trying solutions in similar bug. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Using emerge in any way. Emerge sync still works though. 2. 3. Actual Results: Same error message keeps appearing. Expected Results: Normal emerge fuctionality
There is a depend that doesn't have an equal sign. I imagine it's probably in the ebuild you unpacked. Fix it, and the problem will go away.
I'm a retarded monkey, I've tracked down the problem. Instead of putting: app-sci/boinc ~x86 in /etc/portage/packages.keywords I had: app-sci/boinc-3.2.0 ~x86 app-sci/boinc-20040902 ~x86 The problem is gone now.
