On 5/10/06, Stuart Buckland < stuart@nightime.org.uk> wrote:

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 08:07 +0100, Stuart Buckland wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 17:44 -0300, Douglas Campos wrote:
> > I've got a infinite loop when building stage3 target
> >
> > it goes well then starts to emerge everything again (from already
> > built pkg's)
> >
> > does anyone have seen this?
>
> Funny you should mention this.  I haven't used catalyst in over a year
> but came to back to it yesterday in the guise of looking into GNAP.
>
> Using the supplied GNAP spec files and snapshot everything builds and
> works perfectly.  I took a new snapshot, left everything else the same
> and the build got stuck in a infinite loop of emerging the same packages
> again and again.
>
> Unfortunately I can't offer any help yet as I only discovered it 10
> minutes ago.  You're not alone though.
>
> Stu
>
>
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> Stuart Buckland < stuart@nightime.org.uk>
>

Replying to my own message but looks like I've found the problem.  It
appears to be a long standing bug in portage.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-457692-highlight-catalyst+loop.html
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131207

Looks like it has been resolved in portage-2.0.54-r2 and there is also a
patch available for portage-2.0.54-r1.

I haven't tried either yet as I'm (supposed to be) working. :)

HTH
Stu

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