Like it says, it keeps on cycling between them. I'm not sure why yet. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sync 2. emerge -avuDN world 3. emerge -pvuDN world Actual Results: # emerge -avuDN world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] dev-util/scons-0.96.90 [0.96.1] 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB # emerge -pvuDN world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild UD] dev-util/scons-0.96.1 [0.96.90] 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB
emerge --info missing.
Ah yes. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -ftracer -fforce-addr -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=64" 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/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /usr/X11R6/bin/startx /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -ftracer -fforce-addr -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=64 -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 4kstacks X a52 aac acpi aim alsa amr apache2 artworkextra asm avi bash-completion berkdb bl bzip2 bzlib calendar cdparanoia cdr crypt css cups curl custom-cflags dba dhcp directfb divx4linux doc dts dvd dvdread eds encode esd evo evo2 exif fam fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb fortran fping ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal howl i8x0 icq imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 irda jabber java jikes jp2 jpeg junit libcaca libg++ libwww mad matroska mhash mikmod ming mmx mmx2 mng motif mozdevelop mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi mpm-prefork msn mysql nas ncurses net network nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openssh oscar pam pcre pdflib perl php pic png python quicktime readline real reiserfs rhythmbox rtc samba sdl session slang sockets speex spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tga threads tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vcd videos virus-scan vorbis win32codecs wmf xml xml2 xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS BTW, I tried "equery depends scons" and it turned up empty. I'm sure it's not in my world file either.
Same problem here. I think it is a problem with blender and yafray. Blender 2.37a depends on =dev-util/scons-0.96.1 (this would be the downgrade reason). And yafray (which is a dependancy from blender too) just depends on dev-util/scons. emerge world -vuDpt [nomerge ] media-gfx/blender-2.37a +nls [ebuild UD] dev-util/scons-0.96.1 [0.96.90] 0 kB after that: emerge world -vuDpt [nomerge ] media-gfx/blender-2.37a +nls [nomerge ] media-gfx/yafray-0.0.7 [ebuild U ] dev-util/scons-0.96.90 [0.96.1] 0 kB emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre6 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -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/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/" LANG="en_IE@euro" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage-mozilla" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr clamav crypt css cups curl divx4linux dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss ethereal exif fam ffmpeg font-server foomaticdb fortran freetype gcj gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hardenedphp i8x0 imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde libclamav libg++ libwww logitech-mouse mad maildir mikmod mmx mono motif mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls no-htdocs nptl nvidia oav ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdf pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real samba screen sdl spell sse sse2 ssl subversion svg tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vcd vlm vorbis wifi win32codecs xine xinerama xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS HTH markus
Having the same problem here. Agreeing with comment #3 . % emerge info Portage 2.0.52-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.13-mw i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-mw i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -ftracer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /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/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -ftracer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d aac aalib acl alsa apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups curl dba dedicated dga directfb divx4linux doc dvd dvdr eds emboss encode escreen exif fam fbcon firefox flac foomaticdb ftp gd gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml i8x0 imagemagick imap imlib insecure-savers ipppd ipv6 java jpeg jpeg2k ldap libcaca libg++ libwww mad maildir mmx mmxext motif mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls no-htdocs offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib pear perl png postfix python quicktime readline real rtc ruby samba sasl sdl session silverxp slang spell sse ssl stencil-buffer svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vim-with-x visualization vorbis win32codecs wmf xanim xchattext xine xml xml2 xmms xprint xsl xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
scons-0.96.90 has been package.masked until it can compile blender.
In p.mask since Sept. 2005, closing this.