Harry Putnam wrote: > In the course of a full reinstall I've run into several packages that > appear not to be findable... watching emerge race all over the glob > looking for certain packages...there seems to be some problem with > what portage is looking for and pushing those packages out to repos. > > I've already forgotten the other 5 or so packages but the current one > holding up emerge is eject-2.1.5.tar.gz. > > It appears to be standing in the way of installing a number of other X > related packages. > > Is there a current problem with packages being available? > > If so then how can I remove it as a depandency? It seem unlikely that > eject would really prevent X from running but there appears no easy > way to avoid it.
A recent glibc update has apparently had an effect on wget and its use of /etc/resolv.conf. See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-810843.html. I had a similar experience in which some applications had no issue with dns, but emerge failed to find some distribution files until resolv.conf was cleaned up.
