[gentoo-user] automake slots - will they all be installed?

[gentoo-user] automake slots - will they all be installed?

[Iain Buchanan]

A recent emerge -upD world shows this (among other things):

[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.3
[ebuild     UD] sys-devel/automake-1.5 [1.8.5-r1]
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r2
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.9
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6

Why are there so many automakes?  Will they all be installed (except for
the downgraded version of course)?

I had a quick look around archives / changelogs / man emerge, but i
couldn't find out exactly what will happen when I go ahead here.

TIA,
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Re: [gentoo-user] automake slots - will they all be installed?

[Bastian Balthazar Bux]

Iain Buchanan wrote:

>A recent emerge -upD world shows this (among other things):
>
>[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1
>[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.3
>[ebuild     UD] sys-devel/automake-1.5 [1.8.5-r1]
>[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r2
>[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3
>[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.9
>[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6
>
>Why are there so many automakes?  Will they all be installed (except for
>the downgraded version of course)?
>
>I had a quick look around archives / changelogs / man emerge, but i
>couldn't find out exactly what will happen when I go ahead here.
>
>TIA,
>  
>
yes they will be installed, and it's better you install manually again 
automake 1.8.5 it's needed.
Also you will need to emerge again autoconf or autoconf-wrapper

Sorry but I can't explain what's happening, I don't know

ciao francesco

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Re: [gentoo-user] automake slots - will they all be installed?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 03:34:36 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:

> >[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1
> >[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.3
> >[ebuild     UD] sys-devel/automake-1.5 [1.8.5-r1]
> >[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r2
> >[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3
> >[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.9
> >[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6
> >
> >Why are there so many automakes?  Will they all be installed (except
> >for the downgraded version of course)?

> yes they will be installed, and it's better you install manually again
> automake 1.8.5 it's needed.

You don't need to manually install anything. Although 1.8.5-r1 is
downgraded to 1.5, 1.8.5-r2 is installed into another slot.


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Re: [gentoo-user] automake slots - will they all be installed?

[Iain Buchanan]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 08:52 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 03:34:36 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
> 
> > >[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1
> > >[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.3
> > >[ebuild     UD] sys-devel/automake-1.5 [1.8.5-r1]
> > >[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r2
> > >[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3
> > >[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.9
> > >[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6
> > >
> > >Why are there so many automakes?  Will they all be installed (except
> > >for the downgraded version of course)?
> 
> > yes they will be installed, and it's better you install manually again
> > automake 1.8.5 it's needed.
> 
> You don't need to manually install anything. Although 1.8.5-r1 is
> downgraded to 1.5, 1.8.5-r2 is installed into another slot.

but the first question is why do I need 6 versions of automake?

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Re: [gentoo-user] automake slots - will they all be installed?

[fire-eyes]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:47 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:

> they are fundamental tools for compile a system, gentoo patches quite 
> everithing and so it must rebuild the configures and Makefiles script 
> that it's distribuited in the original packages.
> To do do this emerge need to recompile other files that may be written 
> for a particular version of automake or autoconf (as far as I know they 
> are quite incompatible).

Will emerge automake take care of everything, or is something futher
needed? Also what does the S stand for?


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Re: [gentoo-user] automake slots - will they all be installed?

[Holly Bostick]

fire-eyes wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:47 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
> 
> 
>>they are fundamental tools for compile a system, gentoo patches quite 
>>everithing and so it must rebuild the configures and Makefiles script 
>>that it's distribuited in the original packages.
>>To do do this emerge need to recompile other files that may be written 
>>for a particular version of automake or autoconf (as far as I know they 
>>are quite incompatible).
> 
> 
> Will emerge automake take care of everything, or is something futher
> needed? Also what does the S stand for?

You mean the S in

[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r2

?

It stands for "Slot" (actually, SLOT). So [ NS ]  stands for New SLOT.

Meaning that multiple versions of the same package can be installed 
without conflicting with each other, because they are in different SLOTs.

In this case, it means that one compile can call for automake-1.8.5 and 
use that specifically, another can just call for 'automake' and use the 
latest version (1.9.something), if it wants, because both are on the 
system and can coexist happily.

Holly
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] automake slots - will they all be installed?

[Bastian Balthazar Bux]

Iain Buchanan wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 08:52 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>  
>
>>On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 03:34:36 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>>[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1
>>>>[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.3
>>>>[ebuild     UD] sys-devel/automake-1.5 [1.8.5-r1]
>>>>[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r2
>>>>[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3
>>>>[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.9
>>>>[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6
>>>>
>>>>Why are there so many automakes?  Will they all be installed (except
>>>>for the downgraded version of course)?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>yes they will be installed, and it's better you install manually again
>>>automake 1.8.5 it's needed.
>>>      
>>>
>>You don't need to manually install anything. Although 1.8.5-r1 is
>>downgraded to 1.5, 1.8.5-r2 is installed into another slot.
>>    
>>
>
>but the first question is why do I need 6 versions of automake?
>
>  
>
they are fundamental tools for compile a system, gentoo patches quite 
everithing and so it must rebuild the configures and Makefiles script 
that it's distribuited in the original packages.
To do do this emerge need to recompile other files that may be written 
for a particular version of automake or autoconf (as far as I know they 
are quite incompatible).



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