On 4 May, Grant Edwards wrote:
> It seems that sys-libs/db used to be slotted (I previously had 3 or 4
> versions installed). But todays update is failing becuase Python wants
> libdb-4.7 and Perl wants libdb-4.3. They won't both install because of
> file collisions.
>
> Is libdb no longer slotted?
>
> How does one deal with applications that require different versions of
> libdb?
>
First, sys-libs/db is still slotted, of course
eix -n sys-libs/db
gives
[I] sys-libs/db
Available versions:
(1) 1.85-r3
(3) 3.2.9-r11 3.2.9_p2
(4.2) 4.2.52_p4-r2 (~)4.2.52_p5 4.2.52_p5-r1
(4.3) 4.3.29-r2 (~)4.3.29_p1 4.3.29_p1-r1
(4.4) (~)4.4.20_p4 (~)4.4.20_p4-r1
(4.5) 4.5.20_p2 4.5.20_p2-r1{tbz2}
(4.6) 4.6.21_p4{tbz2}
(4.7) (~)4.7.25_p3 4.7.25_p4{tbz2}
(4.8) (~)4.8.24 (~)4.8.26 (~)4.8.30{tbz2}
{doc elibc_FreeBSD examples java nocxx tcl test}
Installed versions: 1.85-r3(1)(12:35:43 PM 07/16/2008)
4.5.20_p2-r1(4.5){tbz2}(05:36:16 PM 04/01/2009)(tcl -doc -elibc_FreeBSD -java
-nocxx -test) 4.6.21_p4(4.6){tbz2}(04:06:48 PM 03/23/2009)(tcl -doc
-elibc_FreeBSD -java -nocxx -test) 4.7.25_p4(4.7){tbz2}(02:58:36 PM
06/22/2009)(tcl -doc -elibc_FreeBSD -java -nocxx -test)
4.8.30(4.8){tbz2}(09:52:24 AM 05/04/2010)(tcl -doc -elibc_FreeBSD -examples
-java -nocxx -test)
Trying
for S in 1 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8; do
emerge -vpc sys-libs/db:$S
done
shows that here python-2.6.5-r2 uses 4.7 while perl-5.10.1 uses 4.8
and my system is running quite happily (at least, I think so)
Helmut.
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Helmut Jarausch
Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany
