On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 09:54:09 -0400, John Covici wrote:

> > Same problem with 3.0.20-r3 but then I found
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/796584, changing sets.conf got rid of the
> > issue. 
>
> hmmm, I don't have a file like that at all, what should be in that
> file -- I don't even have a /usr/portage at all.
>
The system sets are in /usr/share/portage/config/sets, but they all had
exclude-files where needed. The culprits were my user-defined sets in
/etc/sets.conf. For example:

[kernels]
class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet
world-candidate = False
files = /usr/src
exclude-files = ''

Adding that last line stopped the breakage. This sort of change should
have been accompanied by an einfo message at the very least, preferable a
news item.


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Neil Bothwick

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