Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing PHP pdo

[Mike Diehl]

Forgive the top-posting, but I think my response will be more concise this
way.

I have pdo in my USE flag in /etc/make.conf, so I thought I had this
covered.

I'm also not a fan of the netapps mechanism because I put my web-space in a
nonstandard location for ease of backing up.  Also, I probably just don't
understand it as well as I'd like.  <wink>

So, I could emerge egroupware and let emerge handle the dependencies for me.
 then I cold just emerge -C and re-install just the application by hand. 
Sound right?

Thanks for such a detailed reply.

Mike.

"Michael Orlitzky" <michael@××××××××.com> wrote:
> On 12/23/2012 03:44 PM, Mike Diehl wrote:
>>
>> I did an emerge -s for pdo and didn't find anything so I followed the
>> directions given on the eGroupware installation guide and ran:
>>
>> pecl install pdo
>>
>> Is there an ebuild that I should/could use instead?
>>
>
> Yep, it's a USE flag for dev-lang/php. In /etc/portage/package.use, you
> can add,
>
>   dev-lang/php ... pdo ...
>
> where the ellipses represent any other USE flags you may have set. The
> re-emerge php with,
>
>   emerge -1 dev-lang/php
>
> and it should work, although you may need to restart your web server
first.
>
> Digression: personally, I don't like Gentoo's webapp framework and I
> don't use the ebuilds for any of the web applications that we run. But,
> egroupware is in portage, as www-apps/egroupware.
>
> This may make your life easier if you're familiar with webapps under
> Gentoo: you can just emerge it, and it will make sure all of the
> dependencies are satisfied.
>
> If you *don't* want to go the webapp route, it still makes your life
> easier, since somebody already went to the trouble of figuring out the
> right dependencies. From the ebuild,
>
>   RDEPEND="jpgraph? ( dev-php/jpgraph )
>            dev-php/pear
>            dev-php/PEAR-Auth_SASL
>            virtual/httpd-php
>            dev-lang/php[gd,imap,pdo,posix,session,sqlite,ssl,
>                      unicode,xml,zip,zlib,ldap?,mysql?,postgres?]
>            virtual/cron"
>
> You should make sure you have each of these installed for eGroupware to
> work. The stuff in square brackets [] are USE flags, in this case for
> dev-lang/php.
>
> Since I already mentioned that I don't use the webapp framework, what I
> usually do in a case like this (where something's in portage but I don't
> want to use it) is create my own ebuild just for the dependencies. So
> basically, I would create an ebuild called egroupware-dependencies in an
> overlay, and copy (R)DEPEND from the egroupware ebuild. The rest of the
> ebuild would do nothing.
>
> Then I emerge it, and it gets added to @world. This prevents someone
> from later removing e.g. dev-php/PEAR-Auth_SASL because they don't know
> what it's for. (That person would be me in, say, a year.)
>
>

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Take care and have fun,
Mike Diehl.