Portage trying todowngrade icu to masked version (0.58.2)

Barnoid · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 103

Hi all,

since a few days ago portage has been trying to downgrade icu to a masked version, and I have failed to find the root cause of this problem so far.
Ideas, hints?

Thanks, Barnoid

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 9:54 am Post subject:

You should post full emerge log with --verbose-conflicts option enabled.
Maybe you have icu in world file (grep icu /var/lib/portage/world)?
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Barnoid · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 103

Thank you for your feedback.

No, icu is not in the world file.

In my original post, --verbose-conflicts is already enabled; I was cutting some stuff to be concise. Here is the full log except the overly verbose LN10N variables:

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 10:26 am Post subject:

Try to add also -t option to emerge command.
I thought the problem was firefox-52.9.0, but it doesn't look like it
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Lucipher · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 78

I am having the same issue here. Does anyone know how to fix it.
I also tried the option -t, but it only shows the same package list in tree format. I also don't have icu in the world set.
Any guess?

mahdi1234 · Guru Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 559 Location: Being There

Similar here

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 4:51 pm Post subject:

What happend with command

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dbautista · Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 8:11 am Post subject: dev-libs/icu-58 conflict

The package dev-libs/icu-58.2-r1:0/58.2 wants to be emerged because it's required by dev-db/sqlite-3.28.0::gentoo[icu], dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.212.0_pre20180120::gentoo and @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ (argument).

It seems that icu-58 is for 13.0 based profiles, but I'm on 17.1.

How to solve that?

Thanks in advance!

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 8:32 am Post subject:

I start to think it's a bug see https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1097932.html
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nibheis · n00b Joined: 18 May 2016 Posts: 9

Hi there,

Same pb here. Struggling to find a solution...
I'm trying to update to icu-64.2.

I will let you know if it goes ok.

Regards,
nibheis

netfab · Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 10:24 am Post subject:

Hi,

I have the same dev-libs/icu conflict.
I'm also getting this message :

Xywa · Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 11:05 am Post subject:

Hi,
Do you think my problem is related to the same bug?

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 11:08 am Post subject:

Someone has opened a new bug?
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dbautista · Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 11:09 am Post subject:

I would say it totally is...

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

As a workaround, try to put the following packages into package.accept_keywords:

nibheis · n00b Joined: 18 May 2016 Posts: 9

I added libreoffice-bin to package.keywords, uninstalled sqlite (for now) and ran:

emerge -qav1 "=dev-libs/icu-64.2" (current stable version)

It pulls a new libreoffice-bin version and recompiles all libs using icu (including qtwebengine) - 27 packages.
Still compiling as of now, but at least emerge seems happy with the situation.

Chiitoo · Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:03 pm Post subject:

Merged in dev-libs/icu-58 conflict, starting from 8343012 with its 8 replies.
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Barnoid · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 103

Indeed, libreoffice-bin seems to be the culprit. Uninstalling it, updating world, then re-installing (upgrading) libreoffice-bin seems to work.

Below is the sequence of commands that solved the issue in my case. I am still running the 17.0 profile.
There is one annoyance: revdep-rebuild rebuilds libreoffice-bin-6.2.4.2 on every invocation after the change. I can live with that for now.

The original bug (that portage cannot figure out what's going on) should still be fixed, though.

Thanks for all the help,
Barnoid

nibheis · n00b Joined: 18 May 2016 Posts: 9

Hi,

I confirmed this worked for me (17.1 profile / mostly stable):

1) add keyword for libreoffice-bin-6.2.4.2
2) emerge -qav1 "=dev-libs/icu-64.2" (=> rebuilds pkgs depending on icu)
3) the usual "emerge --quiet --ask --verbose --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps\=y @world"

Maybe just keywording libreoffice-bin is enough, but icu has a new stable version anyway... that's the reason for step #2.

"emerge --quiet --ask @preserved-rebuild" remains silent after that.

Hope this helps.

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

Barnoid · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 103

True, simply keywording libreoffice-bin should help.

However, there still seems to be a bug in portage / the portage tree. Portage should not request a downgrade of icu to a masked version without giving any useful explanation.
Has someone opened a bug already?

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

It will be fixed once 6.2.4.2 is stable, which is an ongoing process - done except for the fact that current -bin still needs a rebuild.