When I try to do a deep update (emerge -uD world) of my world installed packages, I get the error above. This does not happen if I do normal update (emerge -u world). I have sync'ed several times and deleted the sys-kernel directory of /usr/portage/ all to no avail. I am using linux26-headers, and can find no place where linux-headers are specifically requested. To try to fix this issue I tried symbolically linking make.profile to 2004.3: ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.3/ /etc/make.profile But this did not help and the problem existed previous to this also, when I was using the 2004.2 profile. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -uD world Actual Results: Calculating world dependencies / Invalid package name: sys-kernel/linux-headers Expected Results: Emerged required packages. ortage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-rc1-mm4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-rc1-mm4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 25 2004, 22:04:44)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dga dv dvd encode esd evo f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran freetype gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jikes jpeg junit libg++ libwwwmad mikmod mldonkeypango mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpeg4 mpi msn ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcap pda pdflib perl php png psyco python qt quicktime readline samba sdl skey slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts usb vim-with-x wmf xfs xine xineramaxml2 xmms xv xvid yahoo zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Issue found as local override in: vi portage/profile/package.provided containing: sys-kernel/linux-headers removal of this line fixed problem.
