Bug 31626 – EVMS 1 and 2 should be slotted

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Greg Wiley 2003-10-20 14:43:02 UTC]

A thought...

Since they impose radically different system
configuration requirements, the two main
versions of sys-fs/evms should be in different
slots.

For example, on some systems, it is difficult
or unreasonable to install user-space EVMS (v2).
So for those systems, EVMS v1 must be installed
if the operator intends to manage storage on a
running system. On those systems, the oper-
arators will forever fight the will of portage
to upgrade EVMS. Slotting would solve this, no?

Thank you EVMS developers for your consider-
ation of this suggestion and also for your
efforts on this package.

-dub

[Comment 1 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2003-10-20 15:18:57 UTC]

Slotting would solve that, but the dependancies would get messy if the two
cannot run at the same time? Can they?

[Comment 2 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) 2003-10-20 15:55:24 UTC]

evms 1 and 2 can not be slotted sanely, they stomp all over each other. If
you want to stop portage upgrading evms to 2 do the following:
mkdir -p /etc/portage
echo ">sys-fs/evms-2" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

Then portage will never try to upgrade to anything over evms-2.0.0