[olug] Gentoo emerge question...

[Daniel Linder]

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Trying to keep my gentoo system updated, and I'm running into this
problem:



Calculating world dependencies  ... ...done!

[blocks B     ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5)

[blocks B     ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5)

[blocks B     ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.4.6-r1)

[blocks B     ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.4.6-r1)

...cut...

[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5  

[ebuild  N    ] dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.4.6-r1  

...cut...



At a high level, I understand that both "dev-php/mod_php" and
"dev-php/php" are blocking the upgrades, but if I
"pretend" to try to remove them with "emerge -pe
dev-php/mod_php dev-php/php" I get output that doesn't even reference
removing these packages, but lists quite a few other new packages:



# emerge -pe dev-php/mod_php dev-php/php

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:



Calculating dependencies  ...done!

[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/patch-2.5.9

...cut...

[ebuild  N    ] dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0-r9

[ebuild  N    ] dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4

(99 lines of "[ebuild N]" entries!!!)



- From the last two lines, it appears that emerge wants to put on php-4.4.0
(from dev-php) rather than php-5.0.5 from dev-lang.



Is the removal of those two php packages going to require the installation
of a ton of other "stuff"?  Why can't I tell it to force
the upgrade to php-5.0.5 (or at least tell me what the conflicts are so i
can make the decision myself).



I'm really thinking about moving this thing to an Ubuntu server
instead.  I'm tired of waiting for the compile to finish just to
upgrade a minor revision of code...



Dan



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