After "emerge sync" this morning I tried to upgrade perl with following result: /home/wolle $ emerge -p perl These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) [blocks B ] <dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) [blocks B ] <dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 [5.8.0-r10] /home/wolle $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /home/wolle $ emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg gnome libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga tcltk java guile mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr scanner apache2 doc gd plotutils postgres tiff" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-tbird -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer " CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-tbird -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer " ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" /home/wolle $ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
so unmerge the blocking packages *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24876 ***