RE: emerge [world|system] dependency error?

What has happened is that one of the packages that you previously had
installed is now masked out in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask

Or, at least, that was the case for me. I was under the impression that this
issue - wrto emerge [world|system] has been fixed in later versions of
portage...

Check package.mask for baselayout - you may want to comment out the relevant
line.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Tom Caudron
Sent: August 29, 2002 11:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [gentoo-newbies] emerge [world|system] dependency error?


I performed an emerge --clean rsnyc and right afterward tried to emerge my
world.  I used the command "emerge --pretend --update world" (though I later
found that I had the same problem if I do system and if I drop the
--pretend).  The result was an error.

Specifically, the error is:

These are the packages I would merge, in order.
Calculating world dependencies |
!!!Error: couldn't find match for || in sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.2

I looked in the build file for sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.2 and saw that the
only "||" of significance (there are a few preceding the kill command) is
near the beginning, where it says:

RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
    || (>=sys-apps/gawk-3.1.0-r3
          (!build?>=sys-apps/gawk-3.1.0-r3)
          (!bootstrap?>=sys-apps/gawk-3.1.0-r3)
       )"

I checked in my /bin folder and found both gawk and gawk-3.1.1.  I'm not
even sure that this check for gawk is the issue, it's just a best guess.

Has anyone a clue as to how I could proceed or where I could look to get
resolve this?

-Tom Caudron

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