Really, this is sort of serious. I have sysklogd-1.4.1-r2 emerged, and NOT metalog. metalog is NOT installed. however, I did a emerge -u world -p, hey, it showed metalog marked for upgrade! Thinkering about abit, I got this on emerge -s metalog * app-admin/metalog Latest version available: 0.6-r10 Latest version installed: 1.4.1-r2 hmm.. 1.4.1? hey! isn't that sysklogd?! emerge -s sysklogd.. * app-admin/sysklogd Latest version available: 1.4.1-r2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] This is a pretty massive mixup. I've seen this in Gentoo 1.2 also, with older portage than this (2.0.37). It can suddenly start to behave this way after an emerge rsync, after being just fine for a few weeks.
Verify this is still currently a problem. Do you have /var/db/pkg/app-admin/sysklogd Do you have /var/db/pkg/app-admin/metalog Is there an entry in /var/cache/edb/virtuals for metalog or sysklogd Portage version? (emerge -V) Unmerge + Remerge sysklogd ---- fix it? umerge sysklogd + emerge metalog --> Still same '-s' issue? umerge metalog, remerge sysklogd -- Still have the problem?
I have unmerged metalog (well, it deleted sysklogd..), and remerged sysklogd a while ago, and that fixed my problems. Since it's a while ago, i can not check the other points you made. It seemed like an issue in moving sysklogd to another category a while back(?).
Too old to be useful.
db fix
