The build has finished and the error was still there. I ran emaint --check world and found that there were several apps with no ebuilds in portage. They were all unused apps that I had played with at one time or another and I simply deleted them from the world file. All seems well now. Thanks for the discussion.
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 05:22 pm, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > On Tuesday 06 December 2005 02:10 pm, a tiny voice compelled Willie Wong to > > write: > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:36:47PM -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > Calculating world dependencies > > > !!! Problems have been detected with your world file > > > !!! Please run emaint --check world > > > > > > I checked for updates to world while I was updating KDE to 3.5 and got > > > the above message. Should I worry yet? > > > > Well... run emaint --check world? > > > > It should tell you what's wrong. The last time it happened to me was > > when a security hole in scorched3d was found resulting in all ebuilds > > for it to be hardmasked. I had scorched3d in my world file but there > > are no ebuilds ... > > > > W > > -- > > A young woman was jogging when she saw a wizened old man, smiling at her > > from his porch. > > "You look so happy!" she said to him. "What's your secret for a long > > satisfying life?" > > "Well, I smoke three packs of cigarettes every day and I drink a case of > > wisky every week. on top of that I never excersice, and I eat lots of > > fatty foods." > > "That's amazing," the woman said. "And how old are you?" > > He answered, "thirty two." > > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 24 days, 11:29 > > So I checked again. (building pkg 43 of 55 now) I get the same message and > will run emaint when all is done. If the message no longer appears I will > post that info. > -- > Regards, Ernie > 100% Microsoft and Intel free > > 17:19:41 up 1 day, 8:02, 6 users, load average: 1.60, 1.48, 1.69 > Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 21:18:31 up 1 day, 12:01, 6 users, load average: 0.34, 0.29, 0.21 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
