Re: [gentoo-amd64] Messed up virtual/glibc?

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com>]

Richard Freeman wrote:
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> For some reason after upgrading glibc yesterday many packages cannot be
> emerged:
> emerge -puD world
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating world dependencies /
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "virtual/glibc".
> 
> 
> !!! Problem with ebuild media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.7
> !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.
> 
> !!! Depgraph creation failed.
> 
> I do have sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5 installed, and I'm running
> portage-2.0.51.22-r1.
> 
> This isn't just one package - if I mask the one that is complaining I'll
> end up getting a complaint about another package.
> 
> revdep-rebuild didn't help either.
> 
> I've tried reinstalling glibc several times, and I've checked that
> CHOST=CTARGET=CBUILD in emerge info.
> 
> Taking a quick look at glibc I see that it provides virtual/libc.  Why
> are other packages looking for virtual/glibc?  It seems to be more than
> one.  Also - gimp-print does not contain any reference to virtual/glibc.
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas why portage is looking for virtual/glibc?
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I think you've gotten a virtual/glibc typo in one of your ebuilds (where did that "g" come from???).  Have you tried more than one portage snapshot?  Do you have PORTDIR_OVERLAY set?

Zac
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