Error circular dependencies

de11 · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2017 Posts: 11

Hi ,

I did emerge --pretend --newuse --deep world and after that iif I try to emerge anything ,I always get this error

John R. Graham · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:22 pm Post subject:

dev-vcs/git-9999* are all hard masked. Are you sure that's what you want?

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de11 · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2017 Posts: 11

Not sure ,so everyfile that ends with -9999* are hard masked ?
I noticed now that emerge wants to download only hard masked ?

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:31 pm Post subject:

John R. Graham · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:37 pm Post subject:

Probably a case of autounmask striking again.

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de11 · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2017 Posts: 11

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 4:06 pm Post subject:

But is your choice to use 9999 version of git?
If not post all output of command emerge --pretend --newuse --deep --tree @world with wgetpaste

EDIT: sorry John R. Graham I assumed that was a choice of user
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de11 · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2017 Posts: 11

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 4:50 pm Post subject:

I'm little bit confused, git is installed in this moment? In emerge update command not appear but in this post seems not installed, and furthermore in the command there is no problem related to git
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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

Post your package.mask and package.accept_keywords.

de11 · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2017 Posts: 11

ct85711 · Veteran Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 1791

The package.use can either be a regular file or a directory with bunch of files. Mostly it is up to you on which is easier to maintain. I find it's much easier to only have to look in one file for anything, where if you have multiple files, you can split it up and have your own organization. The downside on it being a directory, is that it is very easy of having conflicting entries, the other downside is that pockage's auto-keyword only adds entries to the last file in alphabetic order, so it does not pay attention to any special organization that you do.

Raus · n00b Joined: 02 Jun 2018 Posts: 1

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21602

That error message could be a bit clearer. You asked to install dev-vcs/git, and your currently active configuration picks =dev-vcs/git-9999-r3. That is a live ebuild, so to install that version, you need to download the sources directly from the upstream repository. The upstream repository is tracked in Git, so you need Git installed before you can download live sources. Hence, dev-vcs/git-9999-r3 depends on dev-vcs/git. Where it could be clearer is that you don't need =dev-vcs/git-9999-r3 to download the sources. Any recent Git will do. According to the eclass, >=dev-vcs/git-1.8.2.1 is acceptable. If you had an acceptable Git installed, this would work transparently. Since you don't, you need to get an older Git installed first. Non-live ebuilds can be installed from exported snapshots, thus avoiding the dependency on dev-vcs/git.

Did you intend to use live Git? If not, the simplest fix would be to switch back to a released version.