This issue of binary packages and fixpackages has been separated from bug 26674 - 'Gentoolkit twins' which was originally about duplicate packages. I thought it might be an idea to look at these two issues separately. $ emerge sync <snip> >>> Updating Portage cache... ...done! Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2003 (Could take a couple minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' ..............@!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! sys-apps/tar-1.13.25-r3 -> app-arch/tar-1.13.25-r3 ..@!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! sys-apps/bzip2-1.0.2-r2 -> app-arch/bzip2-1.0.2-r2 .@!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! sys-apps/gzip-1.3.3-r2 -> app-arch/gzip-1.3.3-r2 ..@!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! sys-apps/sharutils-4.2.1-r6 -> app-arch/sharutils-4.2.1-r6 ** Skipping packages. Run 'fixpackages' or set it in FEATURES to fix the tbz2's in the packages directory. Note: This can take a very long time. $ emerge -Duvp world <snip> Calculating world dependencies \ emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "sys-apps/bzip2". !!! Problem with ebuild dev-php/mod_php-4.3.3-r3 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed. $ fixpackages <snip> Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2003 (Could take a couple minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' ..............!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! sys-apps/tar-1.13.25-r3 -> app-arch/tar-1.13.25-r3 ..!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! sys-apps/bzip2-1.0.2-r2 -> app-arch/bzip2-1.0.2-r2 .!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! sys-apps/gzip-1.3.3-r2 -> app-arch/gzip-1.3.3-r2 ..!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! sys-apps/sharutils-4.2.1-r6 -> app-arch/sharutils-4.2.1-r6 .*********************************************************************************************** ************************************************************************************************ ************************************************************************************ Done. Problems here are the errors that appear on emerge sync, the resulting error on update world which is unable to find a package that has moved and later errors when attempting to fix packages. $ emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.6.0-test9-bk18) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test9-bk18 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs notitles buildpkg" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.linux.no/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.fhh.opensource-mirror.de/gentoo.org/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.caliu.info/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss avi cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg mad motif mpeg ncurses pdflib png quicktime truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb berkdb slang readline aalib svga X sdl tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis gtk opengl cdr acpi acpi4linux apache2 dvd dvdr faad fbcon gtk2 imap java javascript maildir mmx nocd nptl openal php ppds sse tiff xml -apm -arts -crypt -gdbm -gpm -kde -gnome -libg++ -mikmod -nls -qt -spell -esd"
same problem, not different *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26674 ***
