$ glsa-check -f all WARNING: This tool is completely new and not very tested, so it should not be used on production systems. It's mainly a test tool for the new GLSA release and distribution system, it's functionality will later be merged into emerge and equery. Please read http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/glsa-integration.xml before using this tool AND before reporting a bug. fixing 200410-14 ********************************************************************** ... fixing 200408-27 ********************************************************************** fixing 200506-01 >>> merging sys-devel/binutils-2.16-r1 Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=sys-devel/binutils-2.16-r1" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-devel/binutils-2.16-r1 (masked by: -* keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook. After package unmask $ grep binutils /etc/portage/package.keywords sys-devel/binutils ~x86 and installing binutils-6.12 'glsa-check -f all' reemerges package 'binutils' each time I launch glsa-check, also binutils-6.12 is already installed: $ emerge -pv binutils These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/binutils-2.16-r1 -debug +multislot -multitarget +nls -test 0 kB $ binutils-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.15.92.0.2 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16 * May be this problem is due to binutils package is slotted? $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 6 2005, 12:55:31)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10, 2.15.92.0.2-r1, 2.16-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control /var/service" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors1.netvisao.pt/gentoo/ http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/" LANG="ru_RU.cp1251" LINGUAS="en ru" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acl activefilter alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts caps cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dba dhcp directfb divx4linux divxforlinux doc eds emboss encode erandom esd fam fbcon flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gd-external gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hardened imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 jack java jpeg junit kde kerberos ldap libclamav libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors logrotate mad mbox mikmod milter mime mmap mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg mppe-mppc multislot mysql ncurses nls nptl ntlm ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png portaudio povray procmail python qt quicktime quotas rdesktop readline recode reiserfs ruby samba sasl scanner sdl sftplogging slang slp snmp socks5 speex spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb v4l v4l2 vorbis wifi winbind wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xscreensaver xv xvid zlib linguas_en linguas_ru userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
s/also binutils-6.12 is already installed/although binutils-6.12 is already installed/
Hmm, what does `emerge -pv =sys-devel/binutils-2.16-r1` give you?
old, and more information required.
