openssl slot conflict

[MarcGentoo]

Hello,

unfortuanetly I do have a slot conflict I cannot solve myself. Note: I need php7 and cannot uninstall that :/

Can you please show me the right direction to solve this?

Thank you in advance.

[ali3nx]

I had a similar slot conflict caused by openssl 3 being stabilized and the root cause of the conflict was ruby 3.0.x having remained installed.

try adding

[MarcGentoo]

Hi, thanks for the hint, but it did not change a thing in my case.

[ali3nx]

[fedeliallalinea]

If you want keep php7 the warning about openssl-3 will remain since it cannot compile with this version.

[Hu]

To elaborate on fedeliallalinea's post, you already solved it. You just are not willing to use the solution. The solution is to remove php-7.4. Since you say you cannot do that, then you cannot eliminate this conflict at this time.

[stefan11111]

@MarcGentoo

Can't you just mask openssl 3.0 until you can fully migrate it you want to get rid of the conflict?
This is of course, in you don't need openssl 3.0
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[John R. Graham]

Well the other solution is to mask openssl-3. That solution won't be trouble free forever, but it (seems to be) trouble free today. Almost nobody needs openssl-3 today.

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[GoofyX]

Similar problems here. Unmerged all PHP slots and MariaDB-10.5, emerged openssl 3 and I couldn't emerge PHP 7.4, 8.0 or MariaDB 10.5, since they require < openssl-3. Nice. Very nice.

A stable package has arrived (openssl 3) that creates blocks, since other stable packages already exist in the tree and cannot build with this package. Is this a stable system?

For me, the solution at the moment is to mask openssl 3, until a viable solution is found. I know PHP 7.4 is already EOL, but I need it (and I'm pretty sure there are others that need it too) for existing projects.
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[sam_]

[Hu]

As I understand it, the stable system promise is that you are not being required to accept a testing-keyword package to satisfy a stable package. Similarly, you are not being presented with two stable packages that satisfy their dependency relations, but then fail to build together. You are instead presented with two stable packages that Portage knows cannot be built together. While unfortunate, this is what happens when a providing package makes breaking changes and not all the consuming packages adapt for those changes in a timely manner. Remember that the Gentoo maintainers may not be contributors on the underlying package upstream, so while they can set blocks to keep you out of trouble, it is not necessarily their responsibility to update the consuming package to work with the breaking changes. Where they can, they often do, for the sake of avoiding threads like this.

[GoofyX]

Thank you all for the answers. I'm sure you've already considered this, but isn't it possible the newer openssl 3 version to be installed in a slot?
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[fedeliallalinea]

[GoofyX]

[fedeliallalinea]

[Hu]

Slots are only viable if the two slotted versions can be installed at the same time without causing file collisions. Many upstream packages have specific filenames and paths they want to use, and if they cannot be made to use alternate pathnames, then they cannot be slotted. Slotting a library has the additional complication that everything which needs to use that library needs to find the library under the slot-specific pathname. If upstream does not support slotting, consuming packages likely lack support for finding the library at a slot-specific pathname, which means even more work to usefully enable slotting.

[MarcGentoo]

Hello,

thanks for pointing out the details and the discussion. This brings across that the community really cares about the usecases with gentoo.
In my case it is the usage of owncloud which prohibits me updating to php8.

Masking openssl3 was the solution.

Thanks a lot.

[fedeliallalinea]

The www-apps/owncloud support php8

[MarcGentoo]

Hello,

indeed the ebuild does, but the software doesn't.
As far as I understand ownclouds docs there is no definitive date yet, when php8 will be supported.

See https://central.owncloud.org/t/owncloud-support-for-php-8-x/40815/9 or https://central.owncloud.org/t/announcement-owncloud-10-and-php-versions/40251/19

[fedeliallalinea]

[victorc]

I have a similar issue

[Josef.95]

Hi victorc,

the dep in mariadb-10.5.21.ebuild is

[GoofyX]