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Bug 28471 - gnome-panel tries to "upgrade" from 2.x to 1.x
Summary: gnome-panel tries to "upgrade" from 2.x to 1.x
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Depends on: 4698
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Reported: 2003-09-11 13:22 UTC by John Russell
Modified: 2003-09-12 16:34 UTC (History)
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Description John Russell 2003-09-11 13:22:22 UTC 
When I do an emerge -puD world one of the lines is this:

[ebuild     U ] gnome-base/gnome-panel-1.4.2-r2 [2.3.91]

I think the problem lies in the fact that the gnome-panel-2.x ebuild has this

SLOT="0"

whereas gnome-panel-1.x has this

SLOT="1.4"

which makes portage want to "upgrade".  I'm pretty sure that the answer is not 
as simple as changeing SLOT="0" to SLOT="2" ( mostly because I just tried that),
but I don't know enough about slots.  Sorry. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge gnome-panel-2.x
2.  run emerge -puD world
3.

Actual Results:  
portage wanted to upgrade from gnome-panel-2.x to gnome-panel-1.x

Expected Results:  
gnome-panel-2 should only upgrade to other versions of gnome-panel-2.x
Comment 1 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-11 20:26:55 UTC 
you most likely have something that depends on gnome-panel-1, for example do you have USE="gnome" and xmms is being upgraded ? because gnome-panel is slotted, both versions 1.x and 2.x can co-exist together, so emerge world doesnt actually want to downgrade gnome-panel, it wants to install it along side 2.x. in short, the update to gnome-panel-1.4 wont remove 2.x, it will simply add gnome-panel-1.4.
Comment 2 John Russell 2003-09-12 05:39:53 UTC 
Thanks for the tip, but I'm pretty sure there are bigger problems here.  Check out the bug on which this depends.  #4698.  Its a hairy one...
Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-12 06:40:14 UTC 
the SLOT should be corrected anyway.
Comment 4 Spider (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-12 13:43:11 UTC 
Actually, unless the SLOT handling has changed this needs not to be moved.
1.4 is a split out of gnome-core, which means it needed a different SLOT than gnome-panel which is a completely new package for Gnome 2.x

SLOT's as is mark the difference and simply work as tags.
Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-12 16:26:36 UTC 
yep, but this is my esthetic side playing up.
Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-12 16:34:23 UTC 
what the heck, if it aint broke ..