[olug] Gentoo emerge question...

[Jay Swackhamer]

You dont need to unemerge/emerge to rebuild with different USE flags,
update your USE flags in /etc/make.conf and run

emerge -ND world

then all the packages affected by your new USE flags will be rebuilt with
the new flags.


>
>
> 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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