From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NpSuu-0007lv-5X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:54:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63054E0B2C; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:53:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from phobytor.is.co.za (phobytor.is.co.za [196.4.160.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100F9E0B2C for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:53:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from phobytor.is.co.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobytor.is.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CFD73BB345 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:52:58 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (unknown [10.4.2.68]) by phobytor.is.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B1823BB334 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:52:58 +0200 (SAST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake? Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:15:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <4B97A3A9.10401@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <4B97A3A9.10401@libertytrek.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201003101615.53601.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Archives-Salt: 7d7bb977-8e84-4968-8156-c45dcc5a2402 X-Archives-Hash: b264cdbdbac618458df557079f7cdae8 On Wednesday 10 March 2010 15:50:33 Tanstaafl wrote: > Hello, > > I currently have 3 versions of automake installed (1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r3, > and 1.10.2). > > emerge -pvuDN world shows an update available for each one, but, my > question is, do I need all 3 versions? Assuming you do not have those versions in world, the answer is: yes > 'equery depends automake' shows 44 packages, all depending on 1.10* or > higher. try running equery depends on a specific version or a SLOT. equery lies through it's teeth. basically, it does a giant grep and tries to format the output sensibly. Oftentimes, it doesn't succeed in the "sensibly" department > So, can I safely emerge -C the other 2 versions? Should I (does it even > matter)? No. The next emerge world will simply pull them back in. But they are build depends so stuff won't stop working You're first step though is to check for a dodgy world file with cruft in it. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com