Bug 5696

Summary:	Recent rsync breaks portage with groff
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Matthew Daubenspeck <matt>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) <aliz>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	sindian
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matthew Daubenspeck 2002-07-28 16:52:44 UTC

Calculating world dependencies |
!!! Error: couldn't find match for sys-apps/groff in update (likely old
/var/db/pkg entry)

Comment 1 Paul Thompson 2002-07-28 17:19:24 UTC

The problem seems to be a typo in /usr/portage/packages/package.mask
>=sys-apps/groff-1.1.17
should be:
>=sys-apps/groff-1.17.1

Paul

Comment 2 Arun Thomas (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-07-29 15:22:39 UTC

I think Paul is right. Changing the package.mask fixed it for me

Comment 3 Matthew Daubenspeck 2002-07-29 15:50:34 UTC

*  sys-apps/groff
      Latest version Available: 1.16.1-r1
      Latest version Installed: 1.17.2-r1
      Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html
      Description: 
      Text formatter used for man pages

But I already have version 1.17.2-r1 installed, and it wants to downgrade to
1.16.1-r1. Is this right?

Comment 4 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-08-01 14:56:32 UTC

This should be resolved by now, sorry for taking such long time.