On Monday 12 June 2006 16:38, Richard Ruth wrote: >On one of two gentoo (x86_64 AMD Opteron) systems I just emerged the new > portage-2.1 on, emerge is requiring gentoo-sources as a dependency required > by "x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7". Why? > >The 2nd system with an identical 2.6.16.20 vanilla-sources kernel does not > have this problem. > >I tried removing the /usr/portage/x11-base directory and then running > "emerge --sync". Which works buth then: > >============ > ># emerge -pv -u --deep world > [snip] > >Yes, I do use /etc/portage/package.mask to mask out gentoo-sources, but I > have done that for years. (Also, my 2nd system has the same package.mask > and doesn't have a problem with xorg-x11.)
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>Any suggestions on how to fix this dependencies issue? I suspect a portage
> cache issue that 'emerge --sync' is not fixing.
It's probably because something in xorg-x11 is requiring virtual/linux-sources
and for all normal default-linux/{amd64,x86} thats gentoo-sources. So just
emerge sys-kernel/vanilla-sources and it should be fine (since
vanilla-sources also provides virtual/linux-sources).
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Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gentoo Linux Developer - vserver/openvz
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