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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 01:57:31
Message-Id: 573b5ac3-bd4b-49b6-a987-e7a46a80b19a@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead? by John Covici
1 John Covici wrote:
2 > On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 13:30:32 -0400,
3 > Michael Orlitzky wrote:
4 >> On 4/22/20 1:19 PM, John Covici wrote:
5 >>> That makes no sense to me -- portage itself says those files are owned
6 >>> by 14.7.1965(14) so if its telling me that why does it not just
7 >>> replace those files?
8 >>>
9 >> Aha, you're not doing anything wrong. The old 14.7.x version was slotted:
10 >>
11 >> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/diff/net-misc/teamviewer/teamviewer-14.7.1965.ebuild?id=2766d49e7c040d373685775a4515967cd0f1b33e
12 >>
13 >> The new ones aren't (they're all SLOT=0). But the new ones install to
14 >> the same place as the old 14.7.x versions. Since slotted packages aren't
15 >> supposed to conflict, it's complaining that SLOT=0 and SLOT=14.7 (or
16 >> whatever it was) are trying to install to the same place.
17 >>
18 >> I guess the developer never noticed the problem because he was on a
19 >> faster upgrade schedule. You can fix it by uninstalling the old version
20 >> manually, and then installing the new one.
21 >>
22 > OK, manually unmerging and re-emerging did the trick -- thanks all for
23 > your help.
24 >
25
26 That's one problem solved.  Let's hope the other two will be dealt with
27 soon. 
28
29 Dale
30
31 :-)  :-)