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Bug 10286 - glibc 2.3.1 has slot set to 2.2
Summary: glibc 2.3.1 has slot set to 2.2
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-11-05 13:25 UTC by Felipe Ghellar
Modified: 2002-11-11 01:55 UTC (History)
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Description Felipe Ghellar 2002-11-05 13:25:43 UTC 
I've just noticed that glibc-2.3.1-r1.ebuild has its SLOT set to "2.2":

# grep SLOT /usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-*
/usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.2.5-r7.ebuild:SLOT="2.2"
/usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.3.1-r1.ebuild:SLOT="2.2"

Shouldn't be "2.3"?
Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-11-06 09:12:01 UTC 
Do you know why we have the SLOT variable ?
Comment 2 Felipe Ghellar 2002-11-06 10:29:51 UTC 
I thought it was to allow portage to handle the installation of multiple
versions of some program. Hmm... Well, now that I actually thought about it, I
realize it does not make much sense to have multiple versions of glibc
installed. I think I was just fooled by the number of the slot, "2.2". Sorry.
Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-11-11 01:55:10 UTC 
Sorry, should have come back already.  SLOT is used if libraries are not binary
compadible, or if different versions of the same libs/progs can be installed at
the same time (db, freetype, etc for instance).  As we patch glibc-2.3.1 to
be 100% compadible with 2.2.5, SLOT stay at 2.2.  Hope that clears it up :)