On 2010-05-04, Helmut Jarausch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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)
Yes, that's what I saw before the latest update.
> Trying
> for S in 1 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8; do
> emerge -vpc sys-libs/db:$S
> done
No matter what order I do that in, the second one always fails because
of file collisions.
> 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)
I wonder what happened to mine...
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