On 25 January 2006 09:50, gentuxx wrote: > 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. > > I vaguely remembered that the portage crew did some "tinkering" with > the portage tree when PHP5 came out, and it had something to do with > the whole dev-php/php-dev-lang/php issue. > > 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? > > 2) How do I rectify this little "version discrepancy" fixed so that I > can get things updating normally again?
I solved it for me by "emerge --unmerge php" and "emerge dev-lang/php. Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
