I try to emerge portage, and get a block by sandbox-2.6-r1, which is masked: sandbox-2.5 should be merged. # emerge --oneshot portage Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-apps/sandbox-2.5 USE="(multilib)" [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.2.7 [2.1.12.2] PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_3* -python3_2*" [blocks B ] <sys-apps/sandbox-2.6-r1 ("<sys-apps/sandbox-2.6-r1" is hard blocking dev-lang/python-3.3.2-r2) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (sys-apps/sandbox-2.5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=sys-apps/sandbox-2.2 required by (sys-apps/portage-2.2.7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (dev-lang/python-3.3.2-r2::gentoo, installed) pulled in by dev-lang/python required by (dev-util/boost-build-1.49.0::gentoo, installed) ...
# eix sandbox * sys-apps/sandbox Available versions: 1.6-r2 2.3-r1 2.4 2.5 [m]2.6-r1 {{multilib}} Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/sandbox/ Description: sandbox'd LD_PRELOAD hack
Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment.
If you want python-3.3.x, you need sandbox-2.6-r1 or newer. Why are you masking new sandbox?
# emerge --info Portage 2.1.12.2 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.16.0, 3.6.11-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.6.11-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_5000+-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 1925768 total, 108820 free KiB Swap: 3927888 total, 3573028 free Timestamp of tree: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 2.7.3-r2, 3.1.4-r3, 3.2.3, 3.3.2-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.7, 4.5.4, 4.6.3, 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.16.0 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ " LANG="de_DE.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac accessibility acl acpi alsa amd64 arts berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread embedded emboss encode exif extras fam faxonly firefox flac fontconfig fortran ftp g3dvl gd gdbm gif gimp gnutls gphoto2 gpm gtk html iconv icq icu idn imap ipv6 jack java javascript jbig jikes jpeg kde kipi kmid lame lcms ldap libnotify loop-aes mad maildir mikmod mime minizip mmx mng mod modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl phonon php plasma png policykit ppds private-headers pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 raw rdesktop readline samba scanner sdl semantic-desktop session sndfile sockets spell sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink tcpd threads tiff truetype tse3 udev udisks unicode upower usb utempter vcd vnc vorbis webkit wmf wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xetex xinerama xml xscreensaver xulrunners xv xvid xvmc zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de en" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
ChangeLog for dev-lang/python: 24 Mar 2013; Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> python-3.3.0-r1.ebuild, python-3.3.0.ebuild: Add hard blocker on <sys-apps/sandbox-2.6-r1 to ensure we don't hit bug 364877. That is why I masked sandbox-2.6-r1
The "<" symbol means only versions LESS than that are a problem. You do not need to do any masking here as a user, the blocker takes care of making sure you get safe versions automatically.
I removed the masking of sandbox 2.6-r1, now emerge works. Probably my mistake was not to emerge portage in the first place but try an emerge world, and there I got stuck with sandbox 2.6-r1 Thanks!
INVALID it is.