Are packages of major versions of PHP all slotted now?
In trying to upgrade from 5.3 to 5.6 I get the following query:
# emerge -uDatvk dev-lang/php
* IMPORTANT: 8 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
* Use eselect news read to view new items.
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB
!!! The following installed packages are masked:
- dev-lang/php-5.3.28-r3::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Brian Evans <grkni...@gentoo.org> (22 Mar 2015)
# PHP 5.3.x is vulnerable to several security bugs and has
# reached EOL status. (Bugs #533998, #537586, #537590, #538822, #541098)
# Masked pending resolution to bug #538756
For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
* dev-lang/php:5.3
* dev-lang/php:5.4
* dev-lang/php:5.5
Would you like to add these packages to your world favorites? [Yes/No]
I always thought the idea of adding specific slots to my world file a bad
idea ?
-
A
