gentuxx schreef: > Hi all, > <snip> > I went to do an `emerge -Duatv world` tonight, and I get dev-php/php > and dev-php/mod_php blocking. So I uninstalled them, and thought > that I would re-install later (if necessary). When I run it again, I > get dev-lang/php blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4 (which is the one I > just unemerged). So, same logical progression, I go to unemerge > dev-lang/php, and, lo and behold, it's not installed. > <snip> > > So, my questions to the group are these: > > 1) Why does `emerge -Duatv world` find a package (which blocks > another that it wants to update) that `emerge -CDatv world` does NOT > find?
As far as I know, emerge -CDatv world is not even a valid command (at least I hope it isn't). This translates to emerge --unmerge --deep --ask --tree --verbose world, and it seems to me would unmerge everything on your system if it was allowed. The usual use for --unmerge is to tell Portage what you specifically want to unmerge; this should not be an automatic function (except in the case of repair utilities such as depclean, which even those give you a HUGE warning that unmerging "random" --as in "not pre-specified by the user, but determined by a script"-- packages automatically can break the system). The actual answer to your question, though, is that the blocking package is not a problem unless you want to emerge something that it blocks. So of course it's not going to be "noticed" until you attempt to perform such an action (emerging a package that is blocked by the installed package). > > 2) How do I rectify this little "version discrepancy" fixed so that > I can get things updating normally again? Iirc from several threads recently, there are one or more packages on your system that rely on php which must be updated to ~arch, or else they keep trying to bring in PHP4 (only the ~arch version can depend on PHP5; the stable versions have a fixed dependency on PHP4). I don't remember which programs they are, but if you don't feel like searching the archives, you can look at your tree view to see what is actually pulling in PHP4, upgrading that (or keywording it to unstable, rather) and see if you still get the block. Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
