How to reproduce and actual results: % quickpkg * Building package for xorg-server-1.1.99.902 ... [ ok ] * Packages now in /usr/portage/packages: * xorg-server-1.1.99.902: 24M % emerge -K =xorg-server-1.1.99.902 Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.99.902 to / >>> Extracting info * Forcing on xorg-x11 for new enough glxtokens.h... Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface... done >>> Extracting xorg-server-1.1.99.902 tar: ./usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled/README.compiled: Cannot open: Not a directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors !!! Error Extracting /usr/portage/packages/All/xorg-server-1.1.99.902.tbz2 Expected result: successfully re-emerging package. I had the same problem with xorg-server-1.1.99.901, and using that tbz2 file, I can confirm that the package really isn't installed. % emerge --info Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ Last Sync: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:20:01 +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: 1.2.17 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: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-ggdb -O2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/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/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-ggdb -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer nostrip sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://213.186.33.38/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gentoo/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ " LINGUAS="en ja" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=300" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/xemacs" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X Xaw3d aac aalib alsa apm arts berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bzip2 canna cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups debug dlloader doc dri dvd elibc_glibc emboss encode esd firefox foomaticdb fortran freetype freewnn gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 iconv imlib input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java joystick jpeg kde kdexdeltas kernel_linux libg++ libwww linguas_en linguas_ja lm_sensors mad maildir mbox mikmod mmx mng mozsvg mp3 mpeg mule ncurses nls noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsh nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nodrm nojdepend nojsch nojython nolog4j nooro noregexp norhino noxalan noxerces nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl pic png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby scanner sdl session spell spl sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_mga video_cards_vesa vorbis wmf xine xinerama xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
You used a borked tar version to produce the binpkg, I'm afraid. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151146 ***
I'm using the stable tar, tar-1.15.1-r1, not tar-1.15.92 as listed in the bug 151146, so I don't think that was the problem. However, I re-emerged tar, gentoolkit, portage and xorg-server, and now am able to create a package I can re-emerge.
