[olug] Gentoo emerge question...

[sul3n3t at cox.net]

Maybe you can just reemerge squirrelmail first. Perhaps the configure scripts will compile for php this time.

> 
> From: dan at linder.org
> Date: 2006/02/04 Sat AM 08:55:26 EST
> To: Jay Swackhamer <Jay at RebootTheUser.com>
> CC: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Gentoo emerge question...
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> > You have something that is requiring php5 and you have php4/mod_php
> > installed.
> >
> > Remove the php4 packages and install dev-lang/php
> >
> > the -e option = -emptytree = reinstalling the packages and depends
> >
> > add the -t option to show the depends tree to see what is requiring php5
> >
> > to remove and upgrade php
> >
> > emerge --unmerge dev-php/mod_php dev-php/php
> > emerge dev-lang/php
> 
> Thanks for the advice -- I let it work it's compile MoJo late last night 
> and it was done by this morning... Unfortunatly the update broke 
> Squirrelmail, and Squirrelmail requires PHP complied with cli, pcre, xml, 
> and zlib...  So what I'm doing is a --unmerge of dev-lang/php, then trying 
> a re-install of dev-lang/php and squirrelmail.
> 
> > Make sure your apache options are set to start with php5 afterwards.
> >
> > You dont have to have every package updated to the latest revision.
> 
> True -- it seems that when I have let portage fall behind, at some point 
> in time there is a module I do want to update that requires every other 
> module under the sun.  :)
> 
> > Switching to unbuntu would just mean that you wouldnt have the option to
> > upgrade to the latest revisions available.
> 
> Well, it would satify my "gotta-try-it" itis. :)
> 
> > What platforms are you mainting under Gentoo? I may have a binhost that
> > you could use in the next couple of weeks.
> 
> It's an AMD XP 1800 -- if I would use your binhost, wouldn't our USE 
> variables have to be the same?
> 
> Dan
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