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 <gentoo-user+bounces-131126-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1RQTpC-0007x9-6J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:58:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 327E821C0F1; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:57:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CFC521C0A6 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2144B1B4009 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:55:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.072 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.072 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.621, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IQ+k0uBG3B-e for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:55:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177131B4023 for <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:54:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <lnx-gentoo-user@m.gmane.org>) id 1RQTmD-0002TB-87 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:54:57 +0100 Received: from athedsl-373738.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.11.232]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:54:57 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-373738.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:54:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed? Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:54:47 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: <j9v1kh$6bi$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <4EC2B642.3010500@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-373738.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111114 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <4EC2B642.3010500@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0d1c0c2d-8ab3-4cd2-b03c-57f9c9a97ae6 X-Archives-Hash: 29ea155335d0e7a7398c931569095c8e On 11/15/2011 08:58 PM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > today I upgraded gcc from 4.4.5 to the last stable version > 4.5.3-r1. >[...] > But at the and I noticed gcc 4.4 has not been unmerged > and my "world" file is somehow larger. To my surprise, > it contains these lines: > > sys-devel/gcc > sys-devel/gcc:4.4 > > I did full backup before, so I compared world-file before > and after gcc-upgrade just to find out, these two lines > have been really inserted now, during gcc-upgrade. And my > question is: what does it mean? Does my system need now > both gcc 4.4 and 4.5? Why is actually gcc in world-file, > when it is part of system? The old GCC version does not get removed. This is a good thing just in case the new one doesn't work for some reason. If it works OK, you can manually unmerge the old version: emerge -aC gcc:4.4 Before doing that, however, make sure the new one has been activated with gcc-config and verify that it works by building some random package.