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From: Ajai Khattri <ajai@××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] PHP slots
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:05:59
Message-Id: alpine.BSF.2.20.1508191303100.90152@shell.bway.net
1 Are packages of major versions of PHP all slotted now?
2 In trying to upgrade from 5.3 to 5.6 I get the following query:
3
4 # emerge -uDatvk dev-lang/php
5
6 * IMPORTANT: 8 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
7 * Use eselect news read to view new items.
8
9
10 These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
11
12 Calculating dependencies... done!
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14 Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB
15
16 !!! The following installed packages are masked:
17 - dev-lang/php-5.3.28-r3::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
18 /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
19 # Brian Evans <grknight@g.o> (22 Mar 2015)
20 # PHP 5.3.x is vulnerable to several security bugs and has
21 # reached EOL status. (Bugs #533998, #537586, #537590, #538822, #541098)
22 # Masked pending resolution to bug #538756
23
24 For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
25 man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
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29 * dev-lang/php:5.3
30 * dev-lang/php:5.4
31 * dev-lang/php:5.5
32
33 Would you like to add these packages to your world favorites? [Yes/No]
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35
36 I always thought the idea of adding specific slots to my world file a bad
37 idea ?
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39
40 -
41 A

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Re: [gentoo-user] PHP slots Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>