As I understand it the ebuild will set conditions on what it needs to have built (the dependencies). Just doing -u will say it has the latest. To emerge previous versions you have to use the path /usr/portage/... .
> I understand. It was just a little confusing. Now I understand how it > works. I tried to manually install that version and it wouldn't let me. > I tried to emerge -u libglade and it said that there was no upgrade. > Then, I tried to emerge it and it wanted to re-merge the installed one. > Then I tried emerge libglade-0.17-r6 and it said that there was no such > ebuild. So it will only do this to satisfy non-conflicting dependencies? > > I'm installing totem now. > > Thanks! > > --Jason > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, brett holcomb wrote: > > Well it does sort of. as far as it's concerned it's new or > > an upgrade. If it didn't take into account the slot it > > would say D for downgrade. > > > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:28:26 -0400 (EDT) > > > > "Jason A. Pfeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hmmm...so it doesn't take the SLOT into account when it's > > >determining if > > >something is an upgrade or an install? I guess that's > > >why it thinks it's > > >upgrading from 2.2.0 to 1.0.5-r3 but it's really a new > > >install. > > >Hmmm...interesting. I'm going to try and do an install > > >of one of the > > >dependency packages to verify that all works well and > > >then do the real > > >full install of xine-ui and totem if it does. > > > > > >Thanks for all your help! > > > > > >--Jason > > > > > >On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, brett holcomb wrote: > > >> It means that this version will go in what it calls SLOT > > >> 1. It's a way for Gentoo to install different versions > > >>of > > >> the same package such as Gnome. They coexist on the > > >> system. > > >> > > >> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:07:02 -0400 (EDT) > > >> > > >> "Jason A. Pfeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >Hrm...What does the SLOT="1" in > > >> > > >>gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r3.ebuild > > >> > > >> >mean? I'm still > > >> >a little new to gentoo. I've only be using it for a > > >> > > >>few > > >> > > >> >months now. > > >> > > > >> >Thanks! > > >> > > > >> >--Jason > > >> > > > >> >On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, brett holcomb wrote: > > >> > > >> -- > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > >-- > > >Jason A. Pfeil 811 Harbor Winds > > >Dr. > > > Jacksonville, > > >FL 32225 > > > jason=at=jasonpfeil.com.NOSPAM > > > > > > > > >-- > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list