Any time I run emerge or etc-update I get the message... FEATURES variable contains unknown value(s): fixpackages This has appeared after updating to the latest stable portage (2.1.10.41) Google shows a discussion at forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6906330.html but the forums are down, so I can't read it. May be related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337027 A couple of samples follow... ===================================== [aa1][root][~] emerge -pv ssmtp FEATURES variable contains unknown value(s): fixpackages These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64-r2 USE="mta ssl -gnutls -ipv6" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB ===================================== ===================================== [aa1][root][~] etc-update FEATURES variable contains unknown value(s): fixpackages Scanning Configuration files... Exiting: Nothing left to do; exiting. :) ===================================== and note the first line of output for emerge --info [aa1][root][~] emerge --info FEATURES variable contains unknown value(s): fixpackages Portage 2.1.10.41 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 3.0.6-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.0.6-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_II_P320_Dual-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5, 4.5.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo local_overlay ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j1" 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.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac amd64 bzip2 dga dri exif ffmpeg flac fortran gif intel jpeg mmx mmxext mng mp3 mp4 mpeg nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl png posix sse sse2 ssl theora threads tiff truetype vim-syntax vorbis wmf x264 xcomposite xpm xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol asym" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Portage 2.1.10.41 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 3.0.6-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.0.6-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_II_P320_Dual-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5, 4.5.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo local_overlay ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j1" 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.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac amd64 bzip2 dga dri exif ffmpeg flac fortran gif intel jpeg mmx mmxext mng mp3 mp4 mpeg nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl png posix sse sse2 ssl theora threads tiff truetype vim-syntax vorbis wmf x264 xcomposite xpm xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol asym" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
See the emerge(1) man page for more information. It has been deprecated for quite a while now, so you should remove it from your profile.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 386871 ***
