[Gentoo] sys-apps/fileutils was masked or don’t exist

Author: pigfoot

21 Feb

When you try to upgrade your system via portage system recently, you will find the error message as followings:

sojia portage # emerge -uvDNpt world

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

Calculating world dependencies
!!! Packages for the following atoms are either all
!!! masked or don’t exist:
sys-apps/fileutils

This is because sys-apps/sh-utils, sys-apps/fileutils, and sys-apps/textutils have been replaced by sys-apps/coreutils. If you want to get rid of this kind of warning, you must update your /var/lib/portage/world by your-self.

In other words, remove sys-apps/sh-utils, sys-apps/fileutils, and sys-apps/textutils these three lines in your /var/lib/portage/world, the warning will be gone.

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2 Responses for "[Gentoo] sys-apps/fileutils was masked or don’t exist"

Tovok7 April 10th, 2006 at 6:23 am 1
What about this?

emerge -avC sys-apps/sh-utils sys-apps/fileutils sys-apps/textutils
steve April 18th, 2006 at 12:40 am 2
Thank you, pigfoot. I tried Tovok7’s suggestion first, but my system responded by saying that none of those packages were installed, so none could be unmerged. Tweaking /var/lib/portage/world as suggested worked.
Cheers!
-steve