RE: emerge [world|system] dependency error?

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

That was it!  It was masked to accept 1.8.0 and 1.8.1, but that was it. 
I added "=sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.2" to my package.mask file and things
starts working.

Thanks for the help.

-Tom Caudron


> -----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