when sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.4.28 is updated/merged it needs both sys-apps/modutils and sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.0-r2 , but only one can be installed at a time. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. if you are not in sync do a sync. 2. type (as portage-user or root) into your shell as follows: emerge -up vanilla-sources Actual Results: Following Output will be generated: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] sys-apps/modutils (from pkg sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.0-r2) [ebuild N ] sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.0-r2 [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.4.28 (emerge ended here without merging/updateing anything) Expected Results: Update/merge of sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.4.28 and its dependencies. Of course, if the problem has been corrected and somebody tries to reproduce this problem while being in sync, this attemp will fail.
"Expected Results:" should be: Showing packages that needs to be merged without blockers in it.
emerge -C sys-apps/modutils emerge module-init-tools sys-apps/modutils is deprecated long ago, there are a number of threads about it in forums.g.o
