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On Friday 01 June 2007 12:06:28 reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> > This happens when you have more than one version of a package in the same |
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> > SLOT which means your system was in an illegal state. It should have left |
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> > one version still in that SLOT (namely the one with the highest COUNTER |
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> > which is the one that was emerged last and thus it's files won't have |
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> > been removed). |
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> Ok... I see. But it seems there should be some indication of what is |
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> going to happen. Maybe a higher verbosity level would have revealed |
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> what was about to happen? |
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I don't really disagree so I guess you can file a bug. I'm not really sure |
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what a better solution would be though. |
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> I don't understand how the `illegal state' happened.. Does the fact |
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> that I'd just run `emerge sync' have bearing on what happened or would |
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> any emerge command have provoked the uninstall of earlier versions of |
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> emacs-cvs? |
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This explains it: |
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# cd $(portageq portdir)/profiles && grep emacs-cvs updates/* |
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updates/2Q-2007:slotmove app-editors/emacs-cvs 21.3.50 22 |
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updates/2Q-2007:slotmove app-editors/emacs-cvs 22.0.50 22 |
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updates/2Q-2007:slotmove app-editors/emacs-cvs 22.0.90 22 |
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updates/2Q-2007:slotmove app-editors/emacs-cvs 22.0.91 22 |
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updates/2Q-2007:slotmove app-editors/emacs-cvs 22.0.92 22 |
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updates/2Q-2007:slotmove app-editors/emacs-cvs 22.0.93 22 |
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updates/2Q-2007:slotmove app-editors/emacs-cvs 22.0.94 22 |
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updates/2Q-2007:slotmove app-editors/emacs-cvs 22.0.95 22 |
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updates/2Q-2007:slotmove app-editors/emacs-cvs 22.0.96 22 |
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updates/2Q-2007:slotmove app-editors/emacs-cvs 22.0.97 22 |
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updates/2Q-2007:slotmove app-editors/emacs-cvs 22.0.0 23 |
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updates/2Q-2007:slotmove app-editors/emacs-cvs 23.0.0 23 |
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updates/3Q-2004:slotmove <=app-editors/emacs-cvs-21.3.50 0 21.3.50 |
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They used to be in separate SLOTs. Then they got moved to the same SLOT (22). |
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A slotmove is usually performed transparently... |
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Bo Andresen |
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