Lua 5.1 alongside with 5.2

[PeGa!]

Hey folks,

 

I've recently run into a dependency conflict that forced me to remove lua 5.2 from my box. 

 

This is the situation:

• mplayer, ffmpeg and other packages with the libquvi USE and podofo (needed by the pdf USE of krenamer) asked for lua >=5.2.
• vlc and other programs (I can't recall now) asked for lua <5.2

I ended removing the libquvi USE and the pdf USE of krenamer, but I don't like that as a solution; I tried to slot the new version of lua (and I succeeded) but after doing that somehow the blockage persists as if I never had slotted lua in first place.

 

I saw that this issue appeared in Gentoo forums as well, but in my case, I have programs that rely on both versions.

 

I'm not a lua fanboy (in fact, I didn't knew that so many programs relied on lua) but yes, I'm a fanboy of satisfying every needed dependency on my system in order to provide the best funcionality and user experience available, so I would like to regain the libquvi flag (although it is not a priority) without breaking the system.

 

This is the status of my box right now:

sakura pega # equery d dev-lang/lua
 * These packages depend on dev-lang/lua:
app-arch/rpm-4.11.2 (lua ? >=dev-lang/lua-5.1.0[deprecated])
app-editors/vim-7.4.326 (!luajit ? dev-lang/lua[deprecated])
app-editors/vim-qt-20131004 (!luajit ? dev-lang/lua)
app-text/podofo-0.9.2 (dev-lang/lua)
dev-util/geany-plugins-1.24-r1 (lua ? dev-lang/lua)
media-libs/libquvi-0.4.1-r1 (>=dev-lang/lua-5.1[deprecated])
media-video/vlc-2.1.4 (lua ? >=dev-lang/lua-5.1:0)
net-analyzer/nmap-6.25 (lua ? >=dev-lang/lua-5.1.4-r1[deprecated])
www-client/elinks-0.12_pre6 (lua ? >=dev-lang/lua-5)

I'd really appreciate a hint regarding how to deal with lua and achieve the coexistence between the two versions of lua (5.1 and 5.2).

 

Thanks in advance!

[Oleg Vinichenko]

libquvi and lua-5.2 quirks should be fixed with next tree update. Funtoo had libquvi ebuild forked and it missed important changes

[PeGa!]

Thank you Oleg! Will there be a news item notifying this?

[Oleg Vinichenko]

no, there will be no news, that's a regular fix coming with emerge --sync but it's covered in https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-1336

bugtracker is where we trying to record every abnormal things observed.

[PeGa!]

Hi Oleg,

 

After a couple of syncs the issue with lua didn't solve, so I removed the lua USE from vlc. Thus, I upgraded my whole system, and now I'm with the system upgraded and stable.

 

Now I want to re-add the lua flag to vlc. This is what happens:

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] media-video/vlc-2.1.4:0/5-7  USE="X a52 alsa avcodec avformat bluray cdda cddb dbus dts dvbpsi dvd encode flac fontconfig gcrypt gnutls kde libnotify lua* matroska mmx mp3 mpeg mtp musepack ncurses ogg opengl png postproc qt4 samba sdl sftp shout sse svg swscale taglib theora truetype udev v4l vaapi vdpau vnc vorbis x264 xcb xml xv -aalib (-altivec) -atmo (-audioqueue) -avahi -bidi -chromaprint -dc1394 -debug -dirac -directfb (-directx) -dvb (-dxva2) -egl -faad -fdk -ffmpeg -fluidsynth -gme -gnome -growl -httpd -ieee1394 (-ios-vout) -jack -kate -libass -libcaca -libsamplerate -libtar -libtiger -linsys -lirc -live (-macosx) (-macosx-audio) (-macosx-dialog-provider) (-macosx-eyetv) (-macosx-qtkit) (-macosx-quartztext) (-macosx-vout) (-media-library) -modplug (-neon) -omxil -opencv -optimisememory -opus -projectm -pulseaudio (-qt5) -rdp -rtsp -run-as-root -schroedinger -sdl-image -sid -skins -speex {-test} -tremor -twolame -upnp -vcdx -vlm -wma-fixed -zvbi" 0 kB
[ebuild  NS    ]  dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r3:0 [5.2.3-r1:5.2] USE="deprecated readline -emacs -static" 0 kB
[blocks B      ] dev-lang/lua:0 ("dev-lang/lua:0" is blocking dev-lang/lua-5.2.3-r1)

Total: 2 packages (1 in new slot, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)

 * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
 * installed at the same time on the same system.

  (dev-lang/lua-5.2.3-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
    dev-lang/lua:5.2/5.2= required by (app-text/podofo-0.9.2::gentoo, installed)
    dev-lang/lua:= required by (app-text/podofo-0.9.2::gentoo, installed)

  (dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
    >=dev-lang/lua-5.1:0 required by (media-video/vlc-2.1.4::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)


For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked

As you previously said, the problem with libquvi seems to have disappeared, but podofo still is complaining about the version conflict.

 

This is my system right now:

[I] app-text/podofo
     Available versions:  0.9.2 {+boost debug idn test}
     Installed versions:  0.9.2(10:59:21 25/07/14)(boost -debug -idn -test)
     Homepage:            http://sourceforge.net/projects/podofo/
     Description:         PoDoFo is a C++ library to work with the PDF file format.



[I] media-video/vlc
     Available versions:  [M]2.0.5 [M]2.0.7 [M](~)2.0.8 [M](~)2.0.8a [M](~)2.0.9 [M]**2.0.9999 [M](~)2.1.0 [M](~)2.1.1(0/core7.0.0-vlc5.4.0) 2.1.2(0/5-7) (~)2.1.4(0/5-7) **2.1.9999(0/5-7) **9999(0/5-7) {+X a52 aac aalib alsa altivec atmo +audioqueue avahi +avcodec +avformat bidi bluray cdda cddb chromaprint dbus dc1394 debug dirac direct2d directfb directx dshow dts dvb +dvbpsi dvd dxva2 egl +encode faad fbosd fdk +ffmpeg flac fluidsynth fontconfig +gcrypt gme gnome gnutls growl httpd ieee1394 ios-vout jack jpeg kate kde libass libcaca libnotify libproxy libsamplerate libtar libtiger linsys lirc live lua +macosx +macosx-audio (+)macosx-dialog-provider (+)macosx-eyetv (+)macosx-qtkit (+)macosx-quartztext +macosx-vout matroska media-library mmx modplug mp3 mpeg mtp musepack ncurses neon ogg omxil opencv opengl optimisememory opus oss png portaudio +postproc projectm pulseaudio pvr +qt4 qt5 rdp rtsp run-as-root samba schroedinger sdl sdl-image sftp shine shout sid skins speex sqlite sse svg switcher +swscale taglib test theora tremor truetype twolame udev upnp v4l vaapi vcdx vdpau visual vlm vnc vorbis vpx waveout wingdi wma-fixed x264 +xcb xml xosd xv zvbi ELIBC="glibc"}
     Installed versions:  2.1.4(07:26:39 26/07/14)(X a52 alsa avcodec avformat bluray cdda cddb dbus dts dvbpsi dvd encode flac fontconfig gcrypt gnutls kde libnotify matroska mmx mp3 mpeg mtp musepack ncurses ogg opengl png postproc qt4 samba sdl sftp shout sse svg swscale taglib theora truetype udev v4l vaapi vdpau vnc vorbis x264 xcb xml xv -aalib -altivec -atmo -audioqueue -avahi -bidi -chromaprint -dc1394 -debug -dirac -directfb -directx -dvb -dxva2 -egl -faad -fdk -ffmpeg -fluidsynth -gme -gnome -growl -httpd -ieee1394 -ios-vout -jack -kate -libass -libcaca -libsamplerate -libtar -libtiger -linsys -lirc -live -lua -macosx -macosx-audio -macosx-dialog-provider -macosx-eyetv -macosx-qtkit -macosx-quartztext -macosx-vout -media-library -modplug -neon -omxil -opencv -optimisememory -opus -projectm -pulseaudio -qt5 -rdp -rtsp -run-as-root -schroedinger -sdl-image -sid -skins -speex -test -tremor -twolame -upnp -vcdx -vlm -wma-fixed -zvbi ELIBC="glibc")
     Homepage:            http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
     Description:         VLC media player - Video player and streamer



[I] dev-lang/lua
     Available versions:  
     (0)    5.1.4-r8 5.1.5 (~)5.1.5-r1 (~)5.1.5-r3
     (5.1)  [M](~)5.1.5-r2 [M](~)5.1.5-r100
     (5.2)  [M](~)5.2.3 {M}(~)5.2.3-r1
       {+deprecated emacs readline static ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64" ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32"}
     Installed versions:  5.2.3-r1(5.2)(10:52:46 25/07/14)(deprecated readline -emacs -static ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32")
     Homepage:            http://www.lua.org/
     Description:         A powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications

Portage 2.3.6-r8 (funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/arch/x86-64bit, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.18-r1, 3.15.0-pf4 x86_64)
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Thanks in advance.