Re: [gentoo-dev] slots and libraries.

2006-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 12:55, foser wrote: > Adding workarounds like preserve_old_lib* should only be a temporary > measure. right ... i dont even like mentioning their existence, but i shudder to think what ebuild writers would code in the place of using these functions ... -mike -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-dev] slots and libraries.

2006-04-12 Thread foser
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 17:27 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > While this also does not stand any chance to win a beauty contest, this > would also be acceptable to me. The only thing I want is things not > starting to fail without a good reason. A new version of a library is on > itself not a good

Re: [gentoo-dev] slots and libraries.

2006-04-12 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:54, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > While I agree that SLOT's are not perfect, they were created to solve > > this problem too. If another working solution is found, that is ok > > for me too. But I don't want to just find my binary stops working > > because some of its libr

Re: [gentoo-dev] slots and libraries.

2006-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 03:38, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 19:13, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:52, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > > Please remember, this is the reason we have SLOTS > > > > no it isnt > > > > you're complaining about lack of a portage fea

Re: [gentoo-dev] slots and libraries.

2006-04-12 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 19:13, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:52, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > Please remember, this is the reason we have SLOTS > > no it isnt > > you're complaining about lack of a portage feature to track ABI's and > urging the use of hacks in ebuilds to work a

Re: [gentoo-dev] slots and libraries.

2006-04-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:52, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Please remember, this is the reason we have SLOTS no it isnt you're complaining about lack of a portage feature to track ABI's and urging the use of hacks in ebuilds to work around it -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] slots and libraries.

2006-04-11 Thread Alec Warner
Paul de Vrieze wrote: Hi all, what did happen to my surprise. I remerged some libraries. Suddenly my subversion client stopped working because of missing libraries. Please remember, this is the reason we have SLOTS. The slot of a library package should change whenever the SONAME does. This is

[gentoo-dev] slots and libraries.

2006-04-11 Thread Paul de Vrieze
Hi all, what did happen to my surprise. I remerged some libraries. Suddenly my subversion client stopped working because of missing libraries. Please remember, this is the reason we have SLOTS. The slot of a library package should change whenever the SONAME does. This is also true for (in this

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:59:04PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > It installs itself for all versions of Python that are on the > > system. > I don't fully understand the magic how it finds all Python versions, > but can this be applied to other packages? It can and it is. Can't recall offhand whi

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread solar
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 20:59 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:13 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:45:22PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > Now I'm wondering - is there a sane way of handling this that doesn't > > > forcefully remove python 2.4? > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:13 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:45:22PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Now I'm wondering - is there a sane way of handling this that doesn't > > forcefully remove python 2.4? > > e.g. could python modules be installed to multiple python versi

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:04 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > | Hi all, > | > | I recently ran into an interesting problem: > | > | One app I have seems to trigger a bug in Python 2.4, so I want to use it > | with Python 2.3

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Lauer wrote: | Hi all, | | I recently ran into an interesting problem: | | One app I have seems to trigger a bug in Python 2.4, so I want to use it | with Python 2.3 | But, as it imports a few python modules I can't use it - the modules | only

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:45:22PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Now I'm wondering - is there a sane way of handling this that doesn't > forcefully remove python 2.4? > e.g. could python modules be installed to multiple python versions? How > do others (ruby, perl, ...) handle it? For the moment I'

[gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Patrick Lauer
Hi all, I recently ran into an interesting problem: One app I have seems to trigger a bug in Python 2.4, so I want to use it with Python 2.3 But, as it imports a few python modules I can't use it - the modules only get installed to the most recent Python version. From a portage dependency p.o.v