Two days ago, there was a typo *somewhere* that caused problems ( http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85335 ). That bug is marked as fixed in CVS, but the problem remains. If I do: rm -rf /usr/portage rm -rf /var/cache emerge --sync then I get: obelix@home /usr/portage $ emerge --pretend --update --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-uitl/kdevelop". !!! Problem with ebuild app-doc/ebook-bonobo-1.0 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed. This is the same problem described in #85335 If I do: emerge --sync rm -rf /usr/portage/metadata/cache rm -rf /var/cache emerge --metadata I do NOT get the above error. However if I sync again, the rsync mirror feeds me the broken metadata, and the problem comes back. To be exact, I just synced from: >>> starting rsync with rsync://140.211.166.165/gentoo-portage... >>> checking server timestamp ... Welcome to raptor.gentoo.org Server Address : 140.211.166.165 Contact Name : mirror-admin@gentoo.org Hardware : 2 x Pentium III (Katmai), 2432MB RAM and I got the broken metadata. I do not use local rsync mirrors, and I think the problem is in all of the "main" ones, not just the one above ( I have synced a lot in the last two days ). Please fix the metadata on the rsync mirros. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Feb 18 2005, 10:59:12)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 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, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r6 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -funit-at-a-time -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -funit-at-a-time -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ITDNet.net/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j4" 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 X aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dba doc dvd dvdr emboss encode esd flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal howl imagemagick imlib ipv6 ithreads java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmap mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nvidia oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic plotutils png postgres pthreads python qt quicktime readline sdl session sharedmem slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vhosts xml xml2 xv zlib linguas_en" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85335 ***