[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.27 and php 7: input from gentoo users requested

Karl Newman newmank1 at asme.org
Thu Mar 9 18:55:34 UTC 2017


On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi James,
>
> Thursday, March 9, 2017, 6:57:51 PM, you wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>
> >> I saw it too, but it is installing in a new slot so it leaves 5.6.30
> >> installed. Through eselect you select which one you use. You then can
> >> take your time to test while keeping everything running with 5.6. I
> >> haven't tried jet though.
> >> However pre 5.6.30 is deprecated so you might have to upgrade your 5.6
> >> instance to 5.6.30.
> >> Possibly if you run `emerge --depclean --ask` it wants to unmerge 5.6
> >> but in the text then it says how to block it. However as long as you
> >> do not set (through eselect) 7.0 as the main version it shouldn't.
>
> > Thanks for your input, Hika. I do have 5.6.30, which eselect shows as the
> > currently-selected instance. Still, when I run emerge --depclean --ask
> the
> > system wants, now that version 7 has been merged, to unmerge 5.6.30--I
> > don't see any directives in the output for "blocking" anything (I assume
> > you mean blocking the removal). I've done a fair amount of searching the
> > web and examining of package.use and other directories, as well as
> > introducing a tweak or two. But running emerge --depclean still calls for
> > unmerging 5.6.30. I should probably turn to the gentoo forums in my
> > attempts to further troubleshoot this issue: it's only peripherally
> > related to MythTV, after all.
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Look at the top of the output for `emerge --depclean --ask`:
>
> `emerge --noreplace <atom>` or `emerge --noreplace dev-lang\php-5.6.30`
>
>
I think the version needs to be prefixed with an equals sign (and probably
also use a forward slash, because I think the back slash will try to escape
the following p), as such:
`emerge --noreplace =dev-lang/php-5.6.30`

Karl
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