On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 19:21 +0000, Calvin Spealman wrote: > See, thats part of the problem: there is no package called 'mad'. > There is gnomad and madplay, but no package just called 'mad'. I had > the same trouble with portage trying to install motif, instead of > openmotif, which actually does exist. I don't know why, but portage > just started trying to update packages that aren't there. Might it > have to do with any changes in naming of packages, or some of the > package splits over the last month or two? (My computer has been > packed up since early March)
Check your overlays. I get this occasionally from bugfix ebuilds that aren't updated when Portage-tree ebuilds are. Also clean out your cache: rm -r /usr/portage/metadata /var/cache/edb/dep But I'd bet it's your overlays. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
