An error occured when installing basic packages for gentoo

[Un1q32]

Describe the bug
the installing basic packages step fails
To Reproduce
make gentoo distrobox container
Expected behavior
to work
Logs

[ Results for search key : vte ]
*  gui-libs/vte
      Latest version available: 0.70.1
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 500 KiB
      Homepage:      https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal/VTE https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte
      Description:   Library providing a virtual terminal emulator widget
      License:       LGPL-3+ GPL-3+

*  x11-libs/vte
      Latest version available: 0.70.1
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 500 KiB
      Homepage:      https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal/VTE https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte
      Description:   Library providing a virtual terminal emulator widget
      License:       LGPL-3+ GPL-3+

[ Applications found : 4 ]

!!! The short ebuild name "vte" is ambiguous. Please specify
!!! one of the above fully-qualified ebuild names instead.

Additional context
fully-qualified ebuild names should be used for all packages in this step

[89luca89]

Thanks @OldWorldOrdr for the report

I'm not a gentoo user so I don't really know which of the two should be picked? If anyone can suggest me, we can fix it in the init 👍

[ghost]

Not entirely sure which version is correct, but I didn't run into this issue when I rebuilt my docker image, using the x11-libs version, and that seems to have solved the problem.

docker file:

# name the portage image
FROM registry.hub.docker.com/gentoo/portage:latest as portage

# based on stage3 image
FROM registry.hub.docker.com/gentoo/stage3:systemd

# copy the entire portage volume in
COPY --from=portage /var/db/repos/gentoo /var/db/repos/gentoo

# continue with image build
RUN emerge --oneshot portage
RUN emerge --sync
RUN emerge --ask=n --autounmask-continue --quiet-build bash sys-devel/bc net-misc/curl diffutils findutils less ncurses pinentry procps shadow sudo util-linux wget x11-libs/vte

Related, in the installing basic packages step, I also came across this similar problem

[ Results for search key : bc ]
*  app-alternatives/bc [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 0
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 0 KiB
      Homepage:      https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Base/Alternatives
      Description:   bc symlink
      License:       CC0-1.0

*  sys-devel/bc
      Latest version available: 1.07.1-r5
      Latest version installed: 1.07.1-r5
      Size of files: 411 KiB
      Homepage:      https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/bc.html
      Description:   Handy console-based calculator utility
      License:       GPL-3+

[ Applications found : 4 ]

!!! The short ebuild name "bc" is ambiguous. Please specify
!!! one of the above fully-qualified ebuild names instead.

When looking at the Gentoo package list, the bc package was added recently.

New packages at the Gentoo packages database

app-editors/pluma-plugins	A set of plugins for Pluma, the MATE text editor.
app-alternatives/bc	bc symlink
app-alternatives/yacc	Virtual for yacc (yet another compiler compiler)

I've also tried masking it using the --pre-init-hooks, but to no luck

distrobox create --name Gentoo --pre-init-hooks "echo EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going" > /etc/portage/make.conf && echo "app-alternatives/bc" > /etc/portage/package.mask/custom" --image
 localhost/gentoo-distrobox:latest

EDIT:
Looks like the vte package was removed from distrobox-init, although the bc package problem is still present, which can be solved by adding sys-devel/bc to the init file.

[89luca89]

adding sys-devel/bc to the init file

Thanks!

Looks like the vte package was removed from distrobox-init

Yea it was because it was causing too many problems and long (long! :P) build times, that would have put the CI system in timeout

Anyway will add the sys-devel/bc patch, if nothing else is a problem I'll make that commit close this issue