Bug 23807 – emerge x11-wm/windowmaker fails with masked packages

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Andrew Bevitt 2003-07-01 06:34:36 UTC]

This evening after the rsync servers had been fixed I was trying to 
emerge -e world my system but kept failing with

root@saturn /usr/portage # emerge -ep world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies \
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "x11-wm/windowmaker" have been masked.
!!!    (dependency required by "x11-misc/wmakerconf-2.9" [ebuild])

!!! Problem with ebuild x11-misc/wmakerconf-2.9
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.

!!! Depgraph creation failed.

I have windowmaker installed obviously, so I tried remerging wmakerconf
individually, that worked. Then I tried windowmaker itself manually.

root@saturn /usr/portage # emerge x11-wm/windowmaker
Calculating dependencies   
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "x11-wm/windowmaker" have been masked.

!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.

I have synced several times with different mirrors since the metadata problem so
 I do not believe it is from a bad sync from that problem at least. 

Here is my emerge info

root@saturn /usr/portage # emerge info
Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gaming-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/mnt/server/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="x86 crypt libg++ mikmod ncurses pdflib quicktime spell xmms xv zlib alsa
gdbm berkdb slang readline svga tcltk mysql X gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl esd imlib
motif sse 3dnow oss dvd mozilla perl samba cdr avi qt gtk gtk2 python java
oggvorbis opengl sdl jpeg png gif truetype xml xml2 aalib mpeg encode fbcon mmx
acpi apm cups dga directfb scanner -gnome -kde -arts -nls -postgres -3dfx"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -m3dnow -msse -mmmx -O3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse,387
-fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop
-frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -maccumulate-outgoing-args -ffast-math
-fprefetch-loop-arrays -funsafe-math-optimizations -ftracer"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -m3dnow -msse -mmmx -O3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse,387
-fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop
-frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -maccumulate-outgoing-args -ffast-math
-fprefetch-loop-arrays -funsafe-math-optimizations -ftracer"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache fixpackages"

[Comment 1 Andrew Bevitt 2003-07-01 06:42:12 UTC]

Futher more

root@saturn /usr/portage # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" emerge windowmaker
Calculating dependencies   
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "windowmaker" have been masked.

!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
root@saturn /usr/portage # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" emerge windowmaker
Calculating dependencies   
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "windowmaker" have been masked.

!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.

[Comment 2 Andrew Bevitt 2003-07-01 06:54:34 UTC]

root@saturn /usr/portage # emerge --debug windowmaker
Calculating dependencies                                                        Parent:    None
Depstring: x11-wm/windowmaker
Candidates: ['x11-wm/windowmaker']

!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "windowmaker" have been masked.

!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.

[Comment 3 Andrew Bevitt 2003-07-01 07:13:58 UTC]

Strangely enough I just copied the windowmaker-0.80.2-r2 ebuild into PORTDIR_OVERLAY and bumped its release up to -r3 and now it works.

root@saturn /usr/portage # emerge -p windowmaker
                                                                                These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    U ] x11-wm/windowmaker-0.80.2-r3 [0.80.2-r2] 

[Comment 4 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-07-01 07:32:31 UTC]

could you give it another try without PORTDIR_OVERLAY set?

[Comment 5 Andrew Bevitt 2003-07-01 07:56:30 UTC]

Nope with out the ebuild in PORTDIR_OVERLAY the error occurs.
Without PORTDIR_OVERLAY set the error occurs.

[Comment 6 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-07-01 08:33:34 UTC]

this causes from moved the package
updates/2Q-2003:move x11-wm/WindowMaker x11-wm/windowmaker

make sure your PORTAGE_OVERLAY is clean and up2date

[Comment 7 Andrew Bevitt 2003-07-01 09:37:30 UTC]

Its clean and uptodate, the problem only seems to occur when the overlay doesnt actually contain an ebuild for windowmaker. 

[Comment 8 SpanKY 2003-07-04 17:26:29 UTC]

check your world file (/var/cache/edb/world) and remove references to windowmaker in 
it ... then `emerge windowmaker ; emerge -C WindowMaker` 

[Comment 9 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-07-07 11:28:36 UTC]

2.9 is now stable