electrum and bitcoind-24.0.1 have conflicting dependencies

[ddawson]

I've been running a system with both Electrum and bitcoind installed (as well as a local Electrum server). But recently, I see the electrum package has excluded versions of libsecp256k1 that bitcoind requires:

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# emerge electrum
...
  (dev-libs/libsecp256k1-0.1.0_pre20220803:0/20210628::bitcoin, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="asm ecdh experimental extrakeys recovery schnorr -lowmem -static-libs -test -valgrind" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" pulled in by
    <dev-libs/libsecp256k1-0.2 required by (net-misc/electrum-4.3.4:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="cli ncurses qrcode qt5 -test" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_10 -python3_9"
    ^                      ^^^                                    

  (dev-libs/libsecp256k1-0.2.0-r2:0/1::gentoo, installed) USE="asm ecdh experimental extrakeys recovery schnorr -lowmem -test -valgrind" ABI_X86="(64)" pulled in by
    >=dev-libs/libsecp256k1-0.2.0:0/1=[recovery,schnorr] required by (net-p2p/bitcoind-24.0.1:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="asm berkdb external-signer upnp wallet -examples -nat-pmp -sqlite -systemtap -test -zeromq" ABI_X86="(64)"
    ^^                      ^^^^^^^^^^                            

(The same issue also applies to bitcoin-qt, but I'm not using that.)

It looks like the only things I can do to resolve this for myself are either to downgrade bitcoind (I doubt that's a very good idea) or maybe do some local hacking or install Electrum outside of Portage.

Any info about why this change was made (the relevant git commit summary doesn't explain that), or where I can find such info, and/or anything else that could be done?

[eccerr0r]

Yes probably need to do the latter (i.e. hack outside of what's available in portage). Note that you're also using an overlay but suspect this isn't specifically the issue, at least the places you got the ebuilds require versions that don't align with each other due to their testing.

It does not mean they won't work - but their testing indicate they had problems of some sort.

[ddawson]

Note that you're also using an overlay but suspect this isn't specifically the issue

Ah, that. Yeah, whether I allow that overlay or not makes no difference. The ebuilds in the Gentoo repo still have irreconcilable dependencies.

[sam_]

The relevant bug(s) are [bug=890295]bug 890295[/bug] and [bug=867817]bug 867817[/bug]. It should also be fixed/worked around by [bug=890261]bug 890261[/bug].

If two packages you're likely to want installed at the same time have conflicting dependencies, you can and should file a bug.

[The Main Man]

This is still an issue.
So, bitcoin-core needs libsecp256k1-0.4.0 or greater, while electrum needs that lib to be lower than 0.4.0

[Phoenix591]

This is still an issue.
So, bitcoin-core needs libsecp256k1-0.4.0 or greater, while electrum needs that lib to be lower than 0.4.0

build bitcoin-core with -system-libsecp256k1 and then it won't depend on it at all ( it will be built against its own copy) that's what they were pointing out by the last bug that fixed/works around the issue.

[The Main Man]

Indeed, thanks.