emerge world -u -D -p -v These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] dev-lang/php-5.2.10 [nomerge ] media-libs/libpng-1.2.38 [1.2.37] [ebuild N ] app-arch/xz-utils-9999 USE="nls threads -static-libs" [ebuild U ] sys-devel/libtool-2.2.6a [1.5.26] USE="-test%" * Error: circular dependencies: ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/libtool-2.2.6a', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'app-arch/xz-utils-9999', 'merge') (buildtime) ('ebuild', '/', 'app-arch/xz-utils-9999', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/libtool-2.2.6a', 'merge') (buildtime) * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge world -u -D -p -v 2. 3. Actual Results: emerge world -u -D -p -v These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] dev-lang/php-5.2.10 [nomerge ] media-libs/libpng-1.2.38 [1.2.37] [ebuild N ] app-arch/xz-utils-9999 USE="nls threads -static-libs" [ebuild U ] sys-devel/libtool-2.2.6a [1.5.26] USE="-test%" * Error: circular dependencies: ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/libtool-2.2.6a', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'app-arch/xz-utils-9999', 'merge') (buildtime) ('ebuild', '/', 'app-arch/xz-utils-9999', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/libtool-2.2.6a', 'merge') (buildtime) * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies. Expected Results: emerge don't break Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.28-gentoo-r5dedibox-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5dedibox-r8-i686-VIA_Esther_processor_2000MHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4, 2.5.2-r7, 2.6.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org http://gentoo.modulix.net/gentoo/ " LANG="fr_FR.UTF8" LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl bcmath berkdb bzip2 calendar cddb cli cracklib crypt dri dy exif flash fortran ftp gd gdbm gpm hardened hardenedphp hash iconv imap ipv6 ir isdnlog kdb maild mcal memlimit modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp openssh pam pcntl pcre pdf pppd readline reflection sasl session simplexml sockets spamassassin spl ssl sysfs tcpd ti tiff tokenizer unicode x86 xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xv zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
eix libtool [U] sys-devel/libtool Available versions: (1.3) 1.3.5 (1.5) 1.5.26 ~2.2.4 2.2.6a **9999 {test vanilla} Installed versions: 1.5.26(1.5)(14:05:56 27/09/2009)(-vanilla) Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ Description: A shared library tool for developers
eix xz-util * app-arch/xz-utils Available versions: (~)4.999.9_beta (**)9999 {nls static-libs threads} Homepage: http://tukaani.org/xz/ Description: utils for managing LZMA compressed files
And there's nothing we can do about it. It only happens if you use experimental -9999 ebuild, stop doing that and problem goes away.
Autounmask did that Thanks, Nicolas
