When you try to unmerge a package with "emerge unmerge <packagename" it no longer works, but it does work if you do "emerge unmerge =sys-apps/xfsdump-20020124" for example. before you didnt have to provide the catagory at all. here is the output of just emerge unmege packagename bash-2.05a# emerge unmerge python-2.2-r5 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 972, in ? mymatches=localtree.dep_match(x) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2058, in dep_match if not self.hasnode(mypkgdep): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1632, in hasnode myreskey=self.resolve_key(mykey) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1581, in resolve_key self.load(mykey) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2080, in load mycat,mypkg=string.split(mykey,"/") ValueError: unpack list of wrong size good luck on fixing the bug
fixed in 1.8.12