On Tuesday 07 October 2003 16:34, Svein Harald Soleim wrote:
> I have a small problem with emerge. More annoying then anything.
> # emerge -DUp world give me
> [ebuild     U ] gnome-base/gconf-1.0.8-r5 [2.4.0.1]
> [ebuild     U ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r3 [2.4.0]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-libs/db-3.2.9-r9 [4.0.14-r2]
>
> but an
> # emege -p  sys-libs/db give
> [ebuild   R   ] sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2
> and that goes for the rest too.
> I have tried regenworld with no luck. Anyone know how to fix this?

When emerge tries to upgrade a package to lower version and there is no "D" 
sign for downgrade then that package will be installed into a different SLOT. 
SLOTs are a means to install an already installed package but of a different 
version that can coexist together. In this case gnome1 packages will be 
installed in SLOT="1" and gnome2 are already installed in SLOT="2". You can 
check that with "grep SLOT /usr/portage/gnome-base/gconf/* " for gconf for 
example. If you want to know which packages are already installed multiple 
times run "qpkg --dups -v" (qpkg is part of gentoolkit).


Cheers,
Renat


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