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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> <>
> Portage handles SLOT updates by only considering the latest SLOT (unless
> you say otherwise). If I issue 'emerge kde-meta' on my box, portage
> wants to install kde-4.0.2 because that is the latest version (portage
> always wants to upgrade to the latest possible version even without
> SLOTs being involved). To update an earlier SLOT I have to use a minor
> syntax tweak:
>
> emerge kde-meta:3.5
>
> The ":" is the signal to look for a SLOT. Portage will update to the
> highest version in the 3.5 SLOT which happens to be 3.5.9 for me.
> (Aside: all we need do now is hope and pray that no package ever gets
> a : in it's name ... )
>
> Quite obviously, in my case the following two commands are identical:
>
> emerge kde-meta
> emerge kde-meta:kde-4
>
> In summary, the SLOT syntax is just a sensible extension of how portage
> deals with ranges of versions. Compare these and it all makes sense:
>
> emerge foo
> emerge >foo-1.0.0
> emerge <=foo-2.3.4
> emerge foo:1
> emerge foo:2
>
> Hope all this helps and it now makes a little more sense :-)
>
>
>

I learned something today. I didn't know about the *:* for slots.
That's pretty cool. ;-)

I hope I don't forget what I learned today. :-(

Dale

:-) :-)
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