Explanation of --update and slots.

fordboy0 · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 14

Heyall,

I have read through the portage documentation and I think I have a small grasp of the system. Maybe. You can possibly help me to understand it better.

What is the difference between the following two commands (output follows each command). ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is set as "~x86" for clarity. (I have some unstable packages and don't want the "D"owngrade flag set)

Particularly I'm interested in what portage will do differently between the two emerges. I noticed that without the --update flag that xft is blocked. Is this because without --update, portage will be making slots for some of the packages? If so, then why are some marked for "U"pdate. I'm confused.

Fordboy0

Orange · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 47

fordboy0 · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 14

Thanks for the reply. I actually understand what the --pretend parameter does. My question was more about the different output from portage when using --update compared to not using it. I was wondering what the results would be without using --update. Would portage create *slots* for the different versions, rather than upgrading?

-Fordboy
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jimlynch11 · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 12:34 am Post subject:

well an emerge -u world will sync everything up with the current portage tree....if you'd like to prevent it from downgrading things, do emerge -U world ... the uppercase tells portage not to downgrade anything

rabbit · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:45 am Post subject: -U doesn't always work...

emerge -U doesn't always work... for instance, tonight, I was trying to emerge gnumeric. This is what I got:

fordboy0 · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 14

Rabbit,

I think that is a novel idea. It would be helpful if portage would tell you if it was going to create a *slot*, or if it was going to actually overwrite a different version.

Perhaps there is a way to tell, and I'm just too much of a Gentoo n00b to figure it out.

-Fordboy
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schutten · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:17 am Post subject:

No, it is not incorrectly downgrading freetype in this case.
This is one of the many packages that is indeed "slotted" (along with gtk, a lot of the gnome stuff, etc). Most of us will have multiple version of these slotted packages installed.

It would be nice though if portage did indicate if it was actually going to downgrade a package, or create a parallel version in a different slot.

I mentioned this before, I guess I have to post a bug report for it to be noticed by the developers of portage:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=47151

schutten · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:37 am Post subject:

A bug report did already exist in this topic:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18608

I just added my comment to the existing bug report