Bug 17420

Summary:	emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "sys-devel/perl"
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Paul Giordano <paul_giordano>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Paul Giordano 2003-03-12 22:15:11 UTC

Pretty much says it all - I ran an emerge rsync, and then an 
emerge --update --upgradeonly --deep --pretend world
and that message spits out. Seems the gentoolkit-0.1.19-r3 ebuild's hosed
something up.

Comment 1 Paul Giordano 2003-03-12 22:21:52 UTC

Ahhh... it's the --deep clause that messes it up. Looks like the /var/db/pkg directory needs all those ebuilds to get updated too?

Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-13 02:56:27 UTC

gentoolkit already fixed

rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep*
emerge sync
emerge regen