Bug 642060 – x11-base/xorg-drivers: obsolete dep on x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox (replaced by app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.2.4)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Serge 2017-12-22 21:11:18 UTC]

I compiled the kernel 4.14.8-r1 and I did a emerge @module-rebuild after it.
I got the message I needed the virtualbox-guest-additions-5.2.4 which I did.
It came with a new package xf86-video-vboxvideo which I couldn't install because of xf86-video-virtualbox. I unmerged that last package and then I could emerge the other one. When I do an emerge @world virtualbox-guest-additions-5.1.26 and xf86-video-virtualbox-5.1.26 come back. I could mask virtualbox-guest-additions but I am unable to find a similar way for the other package.
Here is the output of emerge --info
emerge --info
Portage 2.3.13 (python 3.5.4-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.25-r9, 4.14.8-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-4.14.8-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-4690_CPU_@_3.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1
KiB Mem:     4052088 total,   3673900 free
KiB Swap:    1048572 total,   1048572 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:00:01 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: 4b847519b4cfe75da07a553bd4c4c930d5d237a9
sh bash 4.3_p48-r1
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.29.1 p3) 2.29.1
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p48-r1::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0-r3::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.24.3::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.14-r1::gentoo, 3.5.4-r1::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.8.2::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.29.2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.4.1-r2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.34.11::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.10-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6-r2::gentoo, 1.15.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.29.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            6.4.0::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r3::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.2.1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.4::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.25-r9::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000
    sync-rsync-extra-opts: 

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync multilib-strict news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/"
LANG="fr_BE.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bindist bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glamor gpm gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg lcms ldap libnotify mad mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pulseaudio python qt3support qt5 readline sdl seccomp session spell ssl startup-notification svg tcpd tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vorbis wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" L10N="fr" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="fr" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6 php7-0" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres9_5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby22" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="virtualbox" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

I always get the message that xf86-video-virtualbox is required by xorg-drivers. I tried different methods all resulting in xf86-video-virtualbox coming back.
Best regards,
Serge

[Comment 1 Morgan Wesström 2017-12-24 22:11:38 UTC]

Since I helped Serge with this in the forum I might clarify a couple of things. In a Gentoo VirtualBox guest, x11-base/xorg-drivers pulls in x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox when VIDEO_CARDS="virtualbox". However, from VirtualBox 5.2 and later this package is now replaced with the upstream drivers in x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo. Strangely enough x11-base/xorg-drivers has no logic for this new package, instead it's a dependency to app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions. This ebuild has a blocker for the old x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox but as long as VIDEO_CARDS="virtualbox", the system tries to pull in both packages which will fail. We solved it by simply clear VIDEO_CARDS but it would be nice with some input from the maintainer how this is supposed to work. As a layman I would have assumed x11-base/xorg-drivers would handle this by checking the VirtualBox version and select the appropriate driver package.

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 2018-01-03 14:27:32 UTC]

Hope I understood the issue correctly.

[Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2019-04-29 00:51:03 UTC]

Package has been removed from the tree. Replacement is x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo