Take a look at your USE flags. The "apache2" flag controls which

version Portage wants to emerge.

I fired up ufed and it showed that the apache2 use flag was cleared. Just to be sure I took a look at /etc/make.conf, /etc/make.profile/make.defaults and /etc/make.globals, but it wasn't in there either. (Also, nothing in $USE.)

Any other suggestions?

My apologies for not looking closer at your problem. I don't know why

your mask file isn't working. Probably somewhere in the Gentoo Portage

forums there's an answer (probably posted by Genome, too).

Anyway, for what it's worth, here's another suggestion:

Edit the ebuild in /usr/portage/dev-perl/Apache-Test and

the DEPEND line to remove the net-www/apache requirement?

I THINK this will work for now but ou'll have issues in the future if Apache-Test gets changed in an emerge sync.

Another option is to show the net-www/apache requirement is

satisfied. I think there's some discussion in the main portage docs

about doing this. This would be cleaner but I don't know specifics.

Something about stub ebuilds?

Apparently Apache-Test's latest version compiles with a version bump.

See Gentoo Bugzilla http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30228

So … if you're going to hack the ebuild anyway, why not build the

latest version while you're at it? Copy the current ebuild and up the

version.

Ugh. Blame it on not enough sleep… wrong filename. :oops:

Thanks for your help.

You're welcome. (For more sleep set USE="+sleep")