In /etc/portage/package.mask: ... >=app-arch/tar-1.16 ... localhost anton # emerge -up world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.26-r1 [5.0.26] [ebuild UD] app-arch/tar-1.15.1-r1 [1.15.92-r1] sys-apps/portage-2.1.2_pre3-r7 localhost anton # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_pre3-r7 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.17-suspend2-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-suspend2-r6 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-32 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:30:02 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe -fweb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe -fweb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="ru" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 acpi alsa apache2 audiofile bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt dbus djvu dlloader doc dvd dvdr dvdread dvi elibc_glibc encode examples fat ffmpeg firefox flac fuse gcc64 gd gdbm gif glibc-omitfp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal howl imagemagick immqt input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog java java5 jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux libg++ libnotify linguas_ru mad mjpeg mng mp3 mpeg music musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses nforce2 nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg opengl pam pcre pdf pdo php plotutils pmu png postgres ppds pppd python qt3 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs ruby sdl session sndfile spell spl sqlite ssl subtitles svg symlink tagwriting tcpd theora tidy truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU vcd video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa video_cards_vmware vorbis xfs xine xml xorg xv xvid zip zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152488 ***
Dupe.