Bug 639922 – Circular dependencies between xz-utils and elt-patches via libtool.eclass

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dominik Schmidt 2017-12-05 12:33:38 UTC]

Created attachment 508246 [details]
emerge --info

As the title says, I'm having issues with circular dependencies on a fresh install using stage3-amd64-20171130.
The problem is xz-utils, which contains:

    inherit eutils multilib toolchain-funcs libtool multilib-minimal

and libtool.eclass contains:

    DEPEND=">=app-portage/elt-patches-20170422"

and elt-patches contains:

    DEPEND="app-arch/xz-utils"

Resulting in a circular dependency that can not be resolved.

Attached is an emerge --info and the error message

[Comment 1 Dominik Schmidt 2017-12-05 12:41:07 UTC]

Created attachment 508248 [details]
The emerge crash

[Comment 2 Dominik Schmidt 2017-12-05 13:38:28 UTC]

Hm, If I repeat unpacking by hand the error doesn't show. In fact, xz-utils is already installed => bootstrapped.
No idea why portage thinks it isn't.

Sorry to have bothered

[Comment 3 Dominik Schmidt 2017-12-05 14:05:20 UTC]

The problem: I stupidly mounted a tmpfs on /var/, resulting in /var/db/pkg/ being lost