Bug 794235 – dev-util/ragel - up and downgrade each day

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: CONFIRMED ---

[Description Toralf Förster 2021-06-05 07:46:38 UTC]

At all 12 tinderbox images I experienced here sth like: 

/home/tinderbox/run/17.1_systemd-j3-20210601-172026/var/log/emerge.log
2021-06-02T00:24:04 >>> dev-util/ragel-7.0.4: 2 minutes, 12 seconds
2021-06-03T18:40:00 >>> dev-util/ragel-6.10: 55 seconds
2021-06-03T20:24:54 >>> dev-util/ragel-7.0.4: 2 minutes, 15 seconds
2021-06-03T21:52:21 >>> dev-util/ragel-6.10: 57 seconds
2021-06-03T22:06:18 >>> dev-util/ragel-7.0.4: 2 minutes, 10 seconds
2021-06-04T17:26:50 >>> dev-util/ragel-6.10: 1 minute, 15 seconds
2021-06-04T20:22:22 >>> dev-util/ragel-7.0.4: 2 minutes, 31 seconds

I'll attach all log files of emerge of that image here too.

The issue is generic and seems not to be related to special USE flag combos. All images are ~amd64.

[Comment 1 Toralf Förster 2021-06-05 07:47:54 UTC]

Created attachment 713754 [details]
task.20210602-003925.dev_ruby_ruby_rc4.log

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2021-06-05 07:47:55 UTC]

Created attachment 713757 [details]
task.20210603-184137.dev_ruby_ecma_re_validator.log

[Comment 3 Toralf Förster 2021-06-05 07:47:56 UTC]

Created attachment 713760 [details]
task.20210603-202737.dev_ruby_rspec_json_expectations.log

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2021-06-05 07:47:57 UTC]

Created attachment 713763 [details]
task.20210603-220357._world.log

[Comment 5 Toralf Förster 2021-06-05 07:47:58 UTC]

Created attachment 713766 [details]
task.20210603-220853.dev_ruby_blinkstick.log

[Comment 6 Toralf Förster 2021-06-05 07:47:59 UTC]

Created attachment 713769 [details]
task.20210604-173317._world.log

[Comment 7 Toralf Förster 2021-06-05 07:48:00 UTC]

Created attachment 713772 [details]
task.20210604-202803.dev_ruby_ruby_gtksourceview3.log

[Comment 8 Sam James 2021-06-05 15:45:57 UTC]

The problem is that some packages still declare dependencies on the older version, so we probably need to file bugs for them instead.

[Comment 9 Hans de Graaff 2021-06-06 07:12:17 UTC]

(In reply to Sam James from comment #8)
> The problem is that some packages still declare dependencies on the older
> version, so we probably need to file bugs for them instead.

My understanding is (at least for the ruby packages depending on ragel) that ragel 7 is not compatible with ragel 6 and required functionality is no longer present, so these dependencies won't be able to upgrade to ragel 7.

One thing to consider is to put ragel 6 and 7 in separate slots (with e.g. the ragel 6 slot providing a ragel-6 binary to run). I haven't looked at the feasibility of this. We would also need to consider desirability, especially if upstream no longer maintains ragel 6.

[Comment 10 Toralf Förster 2021-06-20 17:42:34 UTC]

at least booth versions should block each other IMO if they can't coexists at the same system

[Comment 11 Toralf Förster 2023-06-16 12:23:51 UTC]

FWIW dev-ruby/capybara still wants ragel-6

[Comment 12 Toralf Förster 2023-06-21 17:37:25 UTC]

dev-ruby/parser wants ragel-6

[Comment 13 Toralf Förster 2023-06-22 13:03:07 UTC]

and:
   =dev-util/ragel-6* required by (dev-ruby/regexp_parser-2.7.0:2/2::gentoo, installed) USE="-doc -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby31 -ruby30 -ruby32"

[Comment 14 Toralf Förster 2023-06-24 08:25:46 UTC]

dev-ruby/redcloth-4.3.2-r4:0/0 depends on old ragel too

[Comment 15 Toralf Förster 2023-07-13 13:36:59 UTC]

and dev-ruby/parser-3.2.2.3:0/0 too