I did 'g-octave -v communications', which emerged communications-1.0.10 and also g-octave/signal-1.0.11 as a dependency. Furthermore 'g-octave financial' emerged financial-0.3.2 and g-octave/time-1.0.9 as a dependency. Then I deleted g-octave/signal and g-octave/time: root@moose:/root(16)# emerge -C g-octave/signal root@moose:/root(17)# emerge -C g-octave/signal And I expected, that the next 'emerge -vuDN world' will reemerge them again. But 'emerge -pvuDN world' says: root@moose:/root(21)# emerge -pvuDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all !!! masked or don't exist: g-octave/communications g-octave/financial * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'science'. * Use eselect news to read news items. And the ebuilds are still there: root@moose:/root(23)# locate communications-1.0.10.ebuild /var/db/pkg/g-octave/communications-1.0.10/communications-1.0.10.ebuild /var/lib/g-octave/g-octave/communications/communications-1.0.10.ebuild ... root@moose:/root(24)# ll /var/db/pkg/g-octave/communications-1.0.10/communications-1.0.10.ebuild /var/lib/g-octave/g-octave/communications/communications-1.0.10.ebuild -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 457 Nov 8 15:07 /var/db/pkg/g-octave/communications-1.0.10/communications-1.0.10.ebuild -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 457 Nov 5 20:55 /var/lib/g-octave/g-octave/communications/communications-1.0.10.ebuild And 'emaint --check world' also complains: root@moose:/root(25)# emaint --check world Checking world for problems 100% [========================================================================>] 'g-octave/ident' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/control' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/gsl' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/nnet' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/image' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/statistics' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/strings' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/general' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/sockets' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/parallel' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/communications' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/special-matrix' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/physicalconstants' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/splines' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/io' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/linear-algebra' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/financial' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/symbolic' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/outliers' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/zenity' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/audio' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/odebvp' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/bioinfo' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/fixed' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/irsa' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/informationtheory' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/struct' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/plot' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories 'g-octave/quaternion' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories Any help is appreciated. Reproducible: Always root@moose:/root(26)# qlist -Iv g-octave app-portage/g-octave-0.4.1 g-octave/audio-1.1.4 g-octave/bioinfo-0.1.2 g-octave/communications-1.0.10 g-octave/control-1.0.11 g-octave/financial-0.3.2 g-octave/fixed-0.7.10 g-octave/general-1.2.1 g-octave/gsl-1.0.8 g-octave/ident-1.0.7 g-octave/image-1.0.13 g-octave/informationtheory-0.1.8 g-octave/io-1.0.12 g-octave/irsa-1.0.7 g-octave/linear-algebra-2.0.0 g-octave/miscellaneous-1.0.9 g-octave/nnet-0.1.12 g-octave/odebvp-1.0.6 g-octave/optim-1.0.12 g-octave/outliers-0.13.9 g-octave/parallel-2.0.1 g-octave/physicalconstants-0.1.7 g-octave/plot-1.0.8 g-octave/quaternion-1.0.0 g-octave/sockets-1.0.6 g-octave/specfun-1.0.9 g-octave/special-matrix-1.0.7 g-octave/splines-1.0.7 g-octave/statistics-1.0.10 g-octave/strings-1.0.7 g-octave/struct-1.0.7 g-octave/symbolic-1.0.9 g-octave/zenity-0.5.7 root@moose:/root(27)# emerge --info Portage 2.1.9.24 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.1, glibc-2.12.1-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9650_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:05:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r2, 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5, 4.5.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.82 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.35 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL dlj-1.1 skype-eula googleearth AdobeFlash-10.1 cadsoft" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" 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objc ocaml octave odbc ogdi ogg ole openexr opengl openmp overview pae pam pango pcre pda pdf perl plotutils plugins png podcast policykit posix postgres postscript ppds pppd preview-latex proj projectx pstricks pulseaudio pymol python python-bindings q16 q32 qemu qhull qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reiserfs reports rle romio rpc rrdcgi rrdtool samba sasl science sdl secure-delete semantic-desktop server session sip slang slp smbclient smp sms sndfile snmp soup sox speex spell sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stlport subtitles subversion suexec svg swig sysfs szip t1lib tcl tcpd tex tex4ht texmacs theora threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk tntc tools truetype udev unicode usb userlocales utempter v4l2 virtualbox vorbis wav webdav webdav-serf webkit wifi wmf wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xemacs xext xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 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g-octave was not designed to be used in that way, but if you really want to reinstall the package with emerge, add the overlay path to the variable PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf
I added /var/lib/g-octave to PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf: root@lynx:/root(18)# grep -i octave /etc/make.conf ocaml octave odbc ogdi ogg ole GOCTAVE_OVERLAY="/var/lib/g-octave" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage ${GCPAN_OVERLAY} ${GOCTAVE_OVERLAY}" Now ' emaint --check world' does no more complain about categories that are not listed in /etc/portage/categories, but neither 'g-octave -u' nor 'emerge -uvDN world' detects g-octave packages that should be updated. At "lynx" there is installed: g-octave/general-1.2.1 g-octave/io-1.0.12 g-octave/parallel-2.0.1 at other computers is installed: g-octave/general-1.2.2 g-octave/io-1.0.13 g-octave/parallel-2.0.4 I.e. 'g-octave -u' should update these packages at lynx: root@lynx:/root(26)# qlist -Iv octave | grep -E 'general-|io-|parallel-' g-octave/audio-1.1.4 g-octave/general-1.2.1 g-octave/io-1.0.12 g-octave/parallel-2.0.1 root@lynx:/root(27)# g-octave -u Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. root@lynx:/root(28)# g-octave -u io * Ebuild class error - Package not found: /io-1.0.12 * If you fell that this is a bug, please report to us. * http://www.g-octave.org/ root@lynx:/root(29)# g-octave -u general * Ebuild class error - Package not found: /general-1.2.1 * If you fell that this is a bug, please report to us. * http://www.g-octave.org/ root@lynx:/root(30)# g-octave -u parallel * Ebuild class error - Package not found: /parallel-2.0.1 * If you fell that this is a bug, please report to us. * http://www.g-octave.org/ I.e., also g-octave -u package also does not work.
Maybe I was wrong and the updated packages g-octave/general-1.2.2 g-octave/io-1.0.13 g-octave/parallel-2.0.4 are only available for i686 and not for x86_64, where I tried to update. Sorry for the noise.
(In reply to comment #3) > Maybe I was wrong and the updated packages > g-octave/general-1.2.2 > g-octave/io-1.0.13 > g-octave/parallel-2.0.4 > > are only available for i686 and not for x86_64, where I tried to update. > > Sorry for the noise. > By design, before you upgrade the packages, you should upgrade g-octave itself, because each g-octave release has a fixed package database that you cant upgrade using g-octave --sync. I'm considering to change this behavior in the future, as it was making a lot of people confuse. And additionally, don't try to use the overlay generated in one of your boxes in others, because the ebuilds are keyworded using only one arch (from the current box, obviously). Thanks
