Deep upgrade loops avifile upgrade/downgrade. Mjpegtools has dependancy "<media-video/avifile-0.7.38", and transcode has dependancy ">=media-video/avifile-0.7.25". This results in an upgrade loop between "media-video/avifile-0.7.37.20030522-r2" and "media-video/avifile-0.7.38.20030710". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.6.0-test5-love1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test5-love1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz distcc 2.10 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.2 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox ccache distcc" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" USE="x86 oss foomaticdb gpm jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod ncurses nls png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline bonobo svga tcltk java guile X sdl tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib qt motif scanner -3dfx -3dnow acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi cdr crypt cups dvd emacs encode gif -gnome gtk gtk2 kde mmx mozilla mpeg oggvorbis opengl pdflib sse"
it's old bug i have it too still waiting for fix :|
please try mjpegtools-1.6.1.90
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28189 ***
what about: # grep /avifile- * transcode-0.6.9.ebuild: avi? ( >=media-video/avifile-0.7.25 )
bump media-video/transcode-0.6.9 to media-video/transcode-0.6.10 remove the patch and change avifile to .38 it will fix it