Hi all, I have a problem with some virtual/x11 depending ebuilds. For example, I want to emerge "xmovie-1.8-r4". But I get this error: [ 14:59 haim@itchy ~ ] emerge xmovie -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] x11-base/xorg-x11 (from pkg x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r7) [ebuild U ] sys-devel/patch-2.5.9 [2.5.4-r4] -build -debug -static 197 kB [ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r7 -3dfx +3dnow -bindist -cjk -debug -debug +doc -ipv6 -mmx -nls +pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype +xml2 71,113 kB [ebuild N ] media-video/xmovie-1.8-r4 -mmx 4,582 kB Total size of downloads: 75,893 kB I have installed xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2, so why is this ebuild requesting Xfree? Any ideas on this? Greetings and TIA, Matthias Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I just try to emerge a virtual/x11 depending ebuild...
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of course, here it is: [ 15:50 haim@itchy ~ ] emerge --info Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.26_pre6-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26_pre6-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ cat: /etc/gentoo-release: No such file or directory Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="" ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant-core" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" BASH_ENV="/etc/portage/bashrc" CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -w" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/lib/rt.jar:.:/usr/share/junit/lib/junit.jar:/usr/share/log4j/lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar:/usr/share/systray4j/lib/systray4j.jar:/usr/share/junit/lib/junit.jar:/usr/share/log4j/lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar:/usr/share/systray4j/lib/systray4j.jar:/usr/share/junit/lib/junit.jar:/usr/share/log4j/lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar:/usr/share/systray4j/lib/systray4j.jar:." CLEAN_DELAY="5" COLORTERM="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown:/usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CRYSTAL="/opt/crystal" CVS_RSH="ssh" CXX="g++" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -w" DISPLAY=":0.0" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 --passive-ftp -P ${DISTDIR} ${URI}" GDK_USE_XFT="1" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" GLIBC_SSP_CHECKED="1" GPG_AGENT_INFO="/tmp/gpg-LAuqYa/S.gpg-agent:9981:1" GRP_STAGE23_USE="ipv6 pam tcpd readline nls ssl gpm perl python berkdb acl ncurses" GS_LIB="/home/haim/.fonts" GTK2_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/haim/.gtkrc-2.0:/home/haim/.kde3.3/share/config/gtkrc" GTK_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/haim/.gtkrc:/home/haim/.kde3.3/share/config/gtkrc" GUILE_LOAD_PATH="/usr/share/guile/1.6" G_BROKEN_FILENAMES="1" HOME="/home/haim" HOSTNAME="itchy" INFODIR="/usr/share/info" INFOPATH="/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/info:/usr/share/info" INPUTRC="/etc/inputrc" JAVAC="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2_rc1/bin/javac" JAVA_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2_rc1" JDK_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2_rc1" KDEDIR="/usr/kde/3.3" KDEDIRS="/usr" KDE_FULL_SESSION="true" KDE_MULTIHEAD="false" KONSOLE_DCOP="DCOPRef(konsole-11141,konsole)" KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION="DCOPRef(konsole-11141,session-1)" LD_LIBRARY_PATH=":/usr/lib/wine/lib:/usr/lib/wine/lib" LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" LOGNAME="haim" LS_COLORS="no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:" MAIL="/var/mail/haim" MAKEOPTS="-j2" MANPATH="/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/man:/usr/X11R6/man:${MANPATH}:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2_rc1/man:/usr/qt/3/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man:/opt/vmware/man:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2_rc1/man" NOCOLOR="false" PAGER="/usr/bin/most" PATH="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2_rc1/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2_rc1/jre/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.3/bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/bin/wrappers" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_BINHOST_CHUNKSIZE="3000" PORTAGE_CACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep/" PORTAGE_CALLER="emerge" PORTAGE_GID="250" PORTAGE_MASTER_PID="11154" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PRELINK_PATH="" PRELINK_PATH_MASK="" PS1="\[\033[00m\][ \[\033[01;37m\]$(/bin/date +%H:%M) \[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h \[\033[01;34m\]$(ps1dir $PWD) \[\033[00m\]] " PWD="/home/haim" QMAKESPEC="linux-g++" QTDIR="/usr/qt/3" RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 --passive-ftp -P ${DISTDIR} ${URI}" RPMDIR="/usr/portage/rpm" RSYNC_RETRIES="3" RSYNC_TIMEOUT="180" SESSION_MANAGER="local/itchy:/tmp/.ICE-unix/10075" SGML_CATALOG_FILES="/etc/sgml/sgml-ent.cat:/etc/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat:/etc/sgml/openjade-1.3.1.cat:/etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat:/etc/sgml/sgml-lite.cat:/etc/sgml/dsssl-docbook-stylesheets.cat:/etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.0.cat" SHELL="/bin/bash" SHLVL="5" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" TERM="xterm" TMAKEPATH="/usr/lib/tmake/linux-g++" USE="3dnow X aalib arts avi bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups dga doc dvd encode esd f77 fastcgi foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gphoto2 gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci java jpeg kde kerberos libg++ libwww mad maildir md5sum motif mpeg mysql ncurses offensive opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang sqlite sse ssl svga tcpd truetype usb videos x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib" USER="haim" USERLAND="GNU" USE_EXPAND="VIDEO_CARDS INPUT_DEVICES LINGUAS" WINDOWID="33554437" XARGS="xargs -r" XAUTHORITY="/home/haim/.Xauthority" XINITRC="/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc" _="/usr/bin/emerge"
This looks profile related to me. Could there be something wrong with the 1.4 profile?
hmm... how can I check (and repair) this?
update: I added "virtual/x11 x11-base/xorg-x11" to the file /var/cache/edb/virtuals and now it works. Is this normal? Do I have to change anything else in order to make this persistent?
any news on this?
Your system seems to be a little strange. For example /etc/gentoo-release seems to be missing.
... don't know if you want to call it really "strange", instead it's rather old. I installed it years ago, in pre Gentoo 1.2 times, and never did an "emerge world" afterwards, only what I needed was updated. I remember there was no gentoo-release in this times though
i think this can be closed since x11-base/xfree was removed, if i'm wrong please reopen.