The latest Glest ebuild refuses to build with xerces-c-3 and above. This results in a blocking upgrade with games-puzzle/enigma-1.01, which requires version 3 or higher. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =games-puzzle/enigma-1.01 with USE="nls" 2. emerge =games-strategy/glest-3.1.2 3. Observe failure Actual Results: Quoting: " !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: (...) dev-libs/xerces-c:0 ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-libs/xerces-c-3.0.0-r1', 'merge') pulled in by >=dev-libs/xerces-c-3 required by ('installed', '/', 'games-puzzle/enigma-1.01', 'nomerge') ('installed', '/', 'dev-libs/xerces-c-2.8.0-r1', 'nomerge') pulled in by <dev-libs/xerces-c-3 required by ('installed', '/', 'games-strategy/glest-3.1.2', 'nomerge') " Expected Results: Both games should install without problems Output of emerge --info: " Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3000+-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:35:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r15, 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.3.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/initng/daemon /etc/initng/net /etc/initng/system /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de en" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/armagetron /usr/local/portage_overlay /usr/local/initng-portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3ds X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa asf avahi bash-completion beagle blender-game bluetooth branding browserplugin bzip2 cairo cal3d caps cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cegui cg cli cracklib crypt cscope cups d daap dbus dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread editor enblend encode esd evo exscalibar fam fat ffmpeg firefox flac fmod fortran gdbm gif gimp gkrellm glitz glut gnome gs gstreamer gstreamer010 gtk gvim hal haskell hbci iconv icq image imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java joystick jpeg kpathsea ladspa ldap libcaca libnotify lua mad mdnsresponder-compat midi mikmod mmx mng mono mp3 mpeg mudflap musicbrainz ncurses new-login nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ode offensive ogg oggvorbis ole openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plugin png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sdl session silc slang speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tagwriting tcpd tetex theora thunderbird tiff truetype tse3 unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs wmf 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suid syncron syslog unneeded provide" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" LIRC_DEVICES="hauppauge" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS "
Yes, you'll have to pick one game or the other.
That's not going to work when I pull <dev-libs/xerces-c-3 from the tree. Anything older than 3.0 has a security vulnerability, so they are going to go away.
That's a different issue. There's no "bug" here.
So - should I report this upstream then? Or how do I proceed? I don't even know the cause for the glest ebuild to require <xerces-c-3 - there is neither a comment in the ebuild nor a respective instruction on the glest website.
If it's essential for you to run glest, you're stuck with the old version of xerces-c. I imagine though that you'll probably prioritize the rest of your system and choose to uninstall glest.
(In reply to comment #4) > So - should I report this upstream then? Or how do I proceed? I don't even know > the cause for the glest ebuild to require <xerces-c-3 - there is neither a > comment in the ebuild nor a respective instruction on the glest website. > The cause is that the API changed between xerces-c-2 and xerces-c-3. So, the glest devs should port glest to use the new API.