Bug 424930

Summary:	emerge man page doesn't actually show how to specify package slots
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Stephen Bosch <posting>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	kensington
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	472632
Attachments:	[PATCH] Fixes the bug

Description Stephen Bosch 2012-07-05 14:54:32 UTC

If a user wants to install a package from a specific slot, she can use the syntax "emerge pkg:slot".

Unfortunately, this information is not explicitly provided in man 1 emerge, nor is it in the handbook.

It is explained in man 5 ebuild, but that is aimed mainly at developers, and I missed the reference to man 5 ebuild because I was searching for the term "slot".

Since this is information we can expect users to need often, it would be sensible to have it in the man page for emerge.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-07-05 20:42:01 UTC

Yes, it would be good to mention it there. Note emerge also records slot atoms in world automatically if you give it an atom that only matches a specific slot, such as '=dev-java/icedtea-6*'.

Comment 2 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-07-30 20:20:44 UTC

Created attachment 354652 [details, diff]
[PATCH] Fixes the bug

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-07-30 22:45:46 UTC

(In reply to Alexander Berntsen from comment #2)
> Created attachment 354652 [details, diff] [details, diff]
> [PATCH] Fixes the bug

Thanks, this is in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=27286032d253d95a0860838e89bb2313ccf2ab6b

Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-08-03 10:20:28 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.13.3 and 2.2.0_alpha192.