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On 19/08/2015 19:05, Ajai Khattri wrote: |
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> Are packages of major versions of PHP all slotted now? |
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Yes |
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> In trying to upgrade from 5.3 to 5.6 I get the following query: |
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> # emerge -uDatvk dev-lang/php |
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> * IMPORTANT: 8 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. |
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> * Use eselect news read to view new items. |
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Um, you should probably read those |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB |
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> !!! The following installed packages are masked: |
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> - dev-lang/php-5.3.28-r3::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: |
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> # Brian Evans <grknight@g.o> (22 Mar 2015) |
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> # PHP 5.3.x is vulnerable to several security bugs and has |
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> # reached EOL status. (Bugs #533998, #537586, #537590, #538822, #541098) |
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> # Masked pending resolution to bug #538756 |
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> For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge |
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> man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. |
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> * dev-lang/php:5.3 |
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> * dev-lang/php:5.4 |
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> * dev-lang/php:5.5 |
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> Would you like to add these packages to your world favorites? [Yes/No] |
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> I always thought the idea of adding specific slots to my world file a |
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> bad idea ? |
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No, adding random crap to world is a bad idea. You add to world things |
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YOU want to have, things that are not deps. |
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If you want package X and that package needs php version Y, then php-Y |
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will be installed. |
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If you know for sure you need say php-5.4 for some purpose, then add it |
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to world, otherwise depclean will start removing it. |
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If you just want the latest php, then simply emerge php |
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One of the purposes of slots is to give YOU, the user, finer control |
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over packages that you may well need several versions of (interpreters, |
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libs, kernel sources, and more). To control that, you need to add them |
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to world. |
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What you should not do is try add specific versions of packages to |
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world. That can go horribly wrong. SLOTs for apps you will emerge are |
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generally OK |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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