If I have two versions on the systems, how would apache and the cli
pick what version they are going to use?
on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:38 -0500
> John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > OK, I did put my php version in the /etc/portage/package.mask, but it
> > still wants to install a new major version -- curiously it says ebuild
> > -ns rather than just -n or -u. I put the following line in there
> > =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8
>
> you don't want to mask the currently installed version (=), but rather the
> versions "greater" (>) than it.
>
> > which is my current version of php and emerge said
> > [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6 USE="berkdb cli crypt gdbm
> > [...]
>
> interesting. Yes, that "NS" is for a New, Slotted version. I.e., PHP4
> will still be on your system, so you might already stop worrying at
> this point. In fact, I don't really know how to mask a version in a
> different slot. I would have even expected my suggestion to do that
> anyway. But this makes much more sense, because there should be a
> seperate masking for each of the slots -- and it resembles the
> behaviour from the profile's masks. So you might add another line to
> your package.mask, following Boyd Stephen's suggestion to mask with
> ">=":
>
> >=dev-lang/php-5.0.0
>
>
>
> -hwh
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