Emerge command to update produces verbose error output in terminal. The output can be eliminated by renaming the sys-auth/polkit in the main repository, and emerge shows package updates as normal. I do not know why there is mention of 'overlay', as renaming sys-auth/polkit in the /usr/portage main repo and not an overlay repo, eliminates the output. The verbose output: !!! Problem in 'sys-auth/polkit::overlay' dependencies. !!! 'SetArg' object has no attribute 'root' None ... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.7/emerge", line 51, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/_emerge/main.py", line 1317, in emerge_main return run_action(emerge_config) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py", line 3376, in run_action retval = action_build(emerge_config, spinner=spinner) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py", line 354, in action_build settings, trees, myopts, myparams, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 9979, in backtrack_depgraph myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 10016, in _backtrack_depgraph success, favorites = mydepgraph.select_files(myfiles) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 4029, in select_files return self._select_files(args) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 4372, in _select_files return self._resolve(myfavorites) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 4501, in _resolve if not self._add_pkg(pkg, dep): File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 3111, in _add_pkg pkg.root == myparent.root and AttributeError: 'SetArg' object has no attribute 'root'
Missing `emerge --info`. It will probably reveal some `overlay` on your system of your own making with some troubled sys-auth/polkit package in it, which is causing your local error.
PSA: Just in case your use of sys-auth/polkit from your local overlay was what you intended to do, and you still needed to rename the main tree package to do so, you were probably using sys-apps/portage-3.0.11{,-r1} and need to update to -r2 if you haven't yet. See bug 757741.
This was in fact the case, using sys-apps/portage-3.0.11{,-r1}
