This is the error seen while trying to emerge ccgo : # emerge ccgo Calculating dependencies visible(): invalid cat/pkg-v: games-board/ccgo !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "ccgo" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: !!! Problem in games-board/ccgo dependencies. !!! invalid CPV: games-board/ccgo exceptions # emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7-Skizo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7-Skizo x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=k8" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/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/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/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=k8" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mir1.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/" LINGUAS="fr en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/stock" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr cli crypt ctype cups curl dba directfb divx4linux dri dts dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam fastbuild ffmpeg flac foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gif glut gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde lcms ldap libwww lirc lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska memlimit mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt quicktime readline recode sdl session simplexml soap sockets speex spell spl ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xanim xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xsl xv xvid xvmc zlib linguas_fr linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
*** Bug 128604 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Can you verify that this still happens with a newer portage version? 2.0.54 is pretty well ancient.
I cannot reproduce this on my stable Opteron box with an up-to-date portage.
