Bug 490362 – dev-libs/icu-51.2-r1 conflicts with dev-tex/bibtexu-3.71_p20120701

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2013-11-04 09:56:11 UTC]

I only wanted dev-python/sphinx[latex], and now I get this stuff. Any solutions?

[Comment 1 urcindalo 2013-11-04 10:16:50 UTC]

This also happened to me when updating my box this morning:

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WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict:

dev-libs/icu:0

  (dev-libs/icu-51.2-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with
    >=dev-libs/icu-4.4:0/51.1= required by (dev-tex/bibtexu-3.71_p20120701::gentoo, installed)


Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] No
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[Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel 2013-11-04 11:53:00 UTC]

This is actually a portage bug. I think.

You merged bibtexu when it had a subslot dependency on icu. Afterwards aballier removed the subslot dependency in the ebuild of bibtexu again. For some silly reason, portage cannot handle the upgrade then anymore. 

Workaround: 
emerge -1 dev-tex/bibtexu
(which updates the vdb dependencies with those of the ebuild)

and then repeat whatever you were doing before.

[Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel 2013-11-04 11:56:38 UTC]

Alexis, please please consider re-adding the subslot dependency on icu in the bibtexu ebuild. I don't want to revert your revert, but "preventing extra rebuilds" for a package that takes 20s to build is not a very strong argument.

[Comment 4 Alexis Ballier 2013-11-04 12:36:31 UTC]

(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #3)
> Alexis, please please consider re-adding the subslot dependency on icu in
> the bibtexu ebuild. I don't want to revert your revert, but "preventing
> extra rebuilds" for a package that takes 20s to build is not a very strong
> argument.

since := deps are mainly about rebuilding and those rebuilds are useless with the current icu subslot, I don't understand what a "strong argument" could be :)

[Comment 5 Alexis Ballier 2013-11-04 12:39:20 UTC]

just to be a bit more clear: if icu is _that_ insane and nobody wants to sanitize it, the best route would likely be to move bibtexu back into texlive-core and use the bundled icu copy since that's what upstream recommends...

[Comment 6 urcindalo 2013-11-04 12:55:33 UTC]

(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #2)
> Workaround: 
> emerge -1 dev-tex/bibtexu
> (which updates the vdb dependencies with those of the ebuild)
> 
> and then repeat whatever you were doing before.

You're right!
Thanks very much indeed :)

[Comment 7 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2013-11-05 07:42:55 UTC]

*** Bug 490459 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-11-17 17:46:54 UTC]

*** Bug 491454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Sebastian Luther (few) 2013-11-27 10:50:42 UTC]

This fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=c752202d57a1e3163aded69301e2d71d1ea26ae7

[Comment 10 Pacho Ramos 2014-01-01 12:36:00 UTC]

(In reply to Sebastian Luther (few) from comment #9)
> This fixed in git:
> 
> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;
> h=c752202d57a1e3163aded69301e2d71d1ea26ae7

Could a new portage version be released including this and many other fixes you committed in git? I still see people suffering this bug (for example)

Thanks a lot

[Comment 11 Andreas K. Hüttel 2014-01-04 12:56:22 UTC]

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #10)
> (In reply to Sebastian Luther (few) from comment #9)
> > This fixed in git:
> > 
> > http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;
> > h=c752202d57a1e3163aded69301e2d71d1ea26ae7
> 
> Could a new portage version be released including this and many other fixes
> you committed in git? I still see people suffering this bug (for example)
> 
> Thanks a lot

Pretty please, yes do that!!! We'd actually even need this in stable as soon as possible... see e.g. bug 469770 comment 4

[Comment 12 Andreas K. Hüttel 2014-01-04 12:57:15 UTC]

(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #11)

that should have been bug 496770 comment 4

[Comment 13 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) 2014-01-06 00:41:03 UTC]

Released in sys-apps/portage-2.2.8.