Error on emerge: "Specific key requires an operator&quo

[bdonlan]

When I try the following command:

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emerge -auDv world

I get the following traceback:

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These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies |Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2903, in ?
    if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1351, in xcreate
    if not self.create(myk,myuse=binpkguseflags):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 983, in create
    if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1250, in select_dep
    if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 983, in create
    if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1250, in select_dep
    if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 983, in create
    if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1250, in select_dep
    if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 983, in create
    if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1250, in select_dep
    if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 983, in create
    if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1250, in select_dep
    if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 983, in create
    if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1250, in select_dep
    if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 983, in create
    if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1250, in select_dep
    if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 983, in create
    if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1250, in select_dep
    if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 983, in create
    if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1250, in select_dep
    if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 983, in create
    if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1146, in select_dep
    myeb_matches = portage.portdb.xmatch("match-visible",x)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5346, in xmatch
    myval=match_from_list(mydep,self.xmatch("list-visible",None,mydep=mydep,mykey=mykey))
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5332, in xmatch
    myval=self.gvisible(self.visible(self.cp_list(mykey)))
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5389, in visible
    mymatches_unmask=self.xmatch("match-all",z)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5350, in xmatch
    myval=match_from_list(mydep,self.cp_list(mykey))
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3874, in match_from_list
    raise KeyError, "Specific key requires an operator (%s) (try adding an '=')" % (mydep)
KeyError: "Specific key requires an operator (sys-libs/db-4.2) (try adding an '=')"

I'm using portage 2.0.51-r2, with db-4.2 unmasked (db-4.1 is unstable with subversion, I've heard).

How can I fix this?

[Earthwings]

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