From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B5A1381F3 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:55:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 021EB21C0C4; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:55:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8AE4AE0595 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:54:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38DA33D95C for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:54:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.049 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.049 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.931, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.23, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_FRT_CONTACT=0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id lwFzb7DXgkC6 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:53:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2A50333D842 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:53:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TXtWZ-0003qE-4f for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:53:59 +0100 Received: from athedsl-356006.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.246.68]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:53:59 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-356006.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:53:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Trailing colon and integer in output of emerge Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:53:03 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <2130920.4kmpXs9fEJ@morgaine> <1352724408.32542.1@numa-i> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-356006.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: <1352724408.32542.1@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: 5035a4e2-a4ab-4a85-a0c5-1af5f1fb6f79 X-Archives-Hash: cd2c9fbf7f30f4e05c1b31fd4433ae48 On 12/11/12 14:46, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 11/12/2012 01:28:08 PM, Redcap wrote: >> Today I noticed that emerge adds a colon together with an integer to the >> version of every package it wants to update, e.g. it says >> >> [ebuild U ~] kde-base/kmail-4.9.3:4 [4.9.2:4] USE="handbook >> kontact (- >> aqua) -debug {-test}" 0 kB >> >> I never noticed the trailing ":4" before and I have no idea what it >> means. I >> searched the gentoo website but haven't been able to find anything >> about it. >> Does anyone what it is about? > > It's the value of SLOT. There are package for which multiple versions > can be installed > at the same time Actually, slotted packages are not guaranteed to support that. Sometimes slots are only used for grouping, but different slots can't be installed in parallel. google-chrome is an example.