Mailing List Archive: Portage: Dependency Cache problem

Portage: Dependency Cache problem

Sep 30, 2004, 12:32 PM

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Hello,

I added a package to my overlay directory (gbd from
www.gentoo-stats.org) and this somehow induced a dependency problem when
I tried to emerge it. Right now if I want to emerge anything with
portage I will always receive the warning:

!!! "Specific key requires an operator (app-portage/gbd-1.3.3) (try
adding an '=')"

This is completely independant of the package that I try to emerge. I
get the same error message for glibc, portage ...

What I have tried so far has been to remove gbd from the overlay, remove
the gbd entry from /var/cache/edb/dep, "emerge regen" and finally
"emerge sync". But this did not change anything and I am still unable to
emerge.

Now I have no idea left but maybe somebody of you can point me into the
right direction.

Thanks!

Gunnar

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Re: Portage: Dependency Cache problem [ In reply to ]

aherrman at gmail

Sep 30, 2004, 12:46 PM

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That's basically a syntax error in one of your package.FOO files (at
least that's what it means when I see it).

For example, in /etc/portage/package.mask, if you have:
foo/bar-1.0.0
you'd get an error. Instead, you'd want
=foo/bar-1.0.0

Whatever file you changed for gdb, double check that you have the right syntax.

-Andy

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Re: Portage: Dependency Cache problem [ In reply to ]

php at gunnarwrobel

Sep 30, 2004, 1:02 PM

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Andy Herrman wrote:
> That's basically a syntax error in one of your package.FOO files (at
> least that's what it means when I see it).
>
> For example, in /etc/portage/package.mask, if you have:
> foo/bar-1.0.0
> you'd get an error. Instead, you'd want
> =foo/bar-1.0.0
>
> Whatever file you changed for gdb, double check that you have the right syntax.
>
> -Andy
>
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>
>

Thanks for the help. Next time I will know where to look :)

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