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

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Thu Mar 9 18:37:18 UTC 2017


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`

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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