Bug 43270

Summary:	emerge linux-headers doesn't unmerge older headers
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sven <sven.koehler>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	x86-kernel (DEPRECATED) <x86-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sven 2004-02-29 04:15:17 UTC

hi,

i had linux-headers-2.4.19 installed, and emerged linux-headers-2.4.21.
i noticed, that both versions were listes when i do "qpkg --dups -v".
i took a look at the ebuilds and both say SLOT="0".

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge linux-headers-2.4.19
2. emerge linux-headers-2.4.21
3. qpkg --dups -v

Comment 1 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-29 10:07:40 UTC

Portage does not read the ebuild when it decides SLOTs and what packages should be unmerged: it reads the database entry in /var/db/pkg/${category}/${ebuild}-${version}/SLOT which used to be set to ${KV} for 2.4.19; giving it a slot of 2.4.19. This was resolved a while ago: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sys-kernel/linux-headers/linux-headers-2.4.19.ebuild?r1=1.19&r2=1.20 so it seems that you just had the "SLOT=${KV}" version installed.

Thanks.