[gentoo-portage-dev] emerge and SLOT's

[gentoo-portage-dev] emerge and SLOT's

[John Lazos]

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Hello,

 

Is it possible to have (e.g) 2 different versions of Squid Proxy installed
on the system ad choose which one to use?

Can this be done with SLOT's? If yes, how it can be done?

Is there any documentation available for the SLOT's feature?

 

 

Thanks in advance! :-)

 

 


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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge and SLOT's

[Paul de Vrieze]

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On Thursday 24 June 2004 10:30, John Lazos wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> Is it possible to have (e.g) 2 different versions of Squid Proxy
> installed on the system ad choose which one to use?
>
> Can this be done with SLOT's? If yes, how it can be done?
>
> Is there any documentation available for the SLOT's feature?

Currently portage does not allow on-demand paralel installs. Slot's are 
features of a particular ebuild that means that different slots do not 
overlap or only trivially. As all squid ebuilds have the same slot it is 
not possible to install paralel squid's.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
Gentoo Developer
Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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RE: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge and SLOT's

[John Lazos]

Thanks a lot for your answer!
It was very helpful, considering the usage of SLOT's I thought it was on
demand SLOTing!  :)


John Lazos

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul de Vrieze [mailto:pauldv@gentoo.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:44 AM
> To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge and SLOT's
> 
> On Thursday 24 June 2004 10:30, John Lazos wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to have (e.g) 2 different versions of Squid Proxy
> > installed on the system ad choose which one to use?
> >
> > Can this be done with SLOT's? If yes, how it can be done?
> >
> > Is there any documentation available for the SLOT's feature?
> 
> Currently portage does not allow on-demand paralel installs. Slot's are
> features of a particular ebuild that means that different slots do not
> overlap or only trivially. As all squid ebuilds have the same slot it is
> not possible to install paralel squid's.
> 
> Paul
> 
> --
> Paul de Vrieze
> Gentoo Developer
> Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
> Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net



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