Bug 34731 – virtual/modutils masked because of module-init-tools being masked even if modutils is not

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 9050
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Josh Grebe (RETIRED) 2003-11-29 15:59:23 UTC]

Hello, 
 
I attempted to update my machine today, an got a nice message: 
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "virtual/modutils" have been masked. 
!!!    (dependency required by "sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.4.23" [ebuild]) 
 
emerge -p modutils gives: 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/modutils-2.4.26 [2.4.25] 
 
emerge --debug -p virtual/modutils gives: 
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order: 
 
Calculating dependencies 
Parent:    None 
Depstring: sys-apps/module-init-tools 
Candidates: ['sys-apps/module-init-tools'] 
 
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "virtual/modutils" have been masked. 
 
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. 
 
 
If I change the order that sys-apps/modutils and sys-apps/module-init-tools are listed 
in /var/cache/edb/virtuals, then it works as would be expected. It appears that Portage 
sees the first option masked and bom bs rather than looking at additional options. 
 
I have run into several people having this issue on he Sparc platform, which essentialy 
makes updating impossible unless you modify the virtuals file. 

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-11-29 17:03:42 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9050 ***