walt wrote: > On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:53:00 -0500 > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> walt wrote: >>> Thanks also to wabe and Fernando for your replies. Just for the >>> record I did the update this morning, which completed without >>> errors. qlop shows that both updates completed, but eix shows that >>> I now have only ncurses-5.9-r5 installed. (This is apparently the >>> desired result, but I'm only guessing what the desired result >>> really is.) I think every portage tool should announce very clearly >>> whether a package is slotted/subslotted, and exactly which slot and >>> subslot the package belongs in. The subject of slots is way too >>> confusing to withhold such information. If the devs can't explain >>> slots to their users then they don't understand it themselves. (Hm. >>> That phrase sounds familiar. Where did I get that?) >> >> I did this the other day, after skipping it several times while it got >> sorted out, and I have this now. >> >> [IP-] [ ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r5:0/5 >> [IP-] [ ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r99:5/5 >> >> >> Now, which of us is somewhat off the mark here? :/ > Both of us have been off the mark so many times I can't count that > high :p I'm going to come back tomorrow when I'm more awake and > re-read this entire thread because every reply so far is full of good > info and advice. > > I'm assuming you did that ncurses update on some flavor of gentoo > "unstable"? (I know what a daredevil you are.) > > Just for laughs, what does your "qlop -l ncurses" tell you about what > date you did the ncurses-5.9 update? > > > >
This is what I get: root@fireball / # qlop -l ncurses Mon Dec 15 17:17:17 2014 >>> sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r3 Sun Mar 22 22:37:40 2015 >>> sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r3 Sun Mar 29 19:28:46 2015 >>> sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r3 Sat May 23 02:03:55 2015 >>> sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r3 Sat Aug 29 05:35:33 2015 >>> sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r5 Sat Aug 29 05:35:40 2015 >>> sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r99 root@fireball / # What I find odd is that some updated with no problems, some had minor issues and then some had some serious issues. It seems a dev may have had to fix a few things but it seems differences between everyone else's system then complicated things further. I do have some unstable here. It usually starts when I want the latest KDE due to a bug fix. It seems to roll downhill at that point. Anyway, it works. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
