[gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[John covici]

Hi.  I have some apps which need php4 and the appropriate modules for
apache2 and other things like php-pear -- how do I get them into
gentoo.  All I found was php5 which will break some apps which I will
need to install.

any assistance would be appreciated.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[Gian Domeni Calgeer]

Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 13:36 schrieb John covici:
> Hi.  I have some apps which need php4 and the appropriate modules for
> apache2 and other things like php-pear -- how do I get them into
> gentoo.  All I found was php5 which will break some apps which I will
> need to install.

Hi

Try "emerge -va =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r6"

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RE: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gian Domeni Calgeer [mailto:gidoca@gmx.ch]
> Sent: 09 January 2007 12:46
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4
> 
> 
> Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 13:36 schrieb John covici:
> > Hi.  I have some apps which need php4 and the appropriate 
> modules for
> > apache2 and other things like php-pear -- how do I get them into
> > gentoo.  All I found was php5 which will break some apps 
> which I will
> > need to install.
> 
> Hi
> 
> Try "emerge -va =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r6"
> 
> Gian
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> 
> 

As a more general learning point I would add (for the benefit of the OP) that if you want to emerge a specific package you do:

emerge =category/pacakage-<version>

Available versions can be seen by doing:

ls /usr/portage/dev-lang/php/*.ebuild

Which should list all php ebuilds available.

Cheers

David
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RE: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[John covici]

OK, thanks much -- the strange thing is when I did emerge -s php how
come I did not see the php4 packages -- only the php5 ones?

Also, is there any way while doing a search to see the reason for a
package being masked?

Thanks again.

on Tuesday 01/09/2007 Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\)(David.Nelson2@astrazeneca.com) wrote
 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: Gian Domeni Calgeer [mailto:gidoca@gmx.ch]
 > > Sent: 09 January 2007 12:46
 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 13:36 schrieb John covici:
 > > > Hi.  I have some apps which need php4 and the appropriate 
 > > modules for
 > > > apache2 and other things like php-pear -- how do I get them into
 > > > gentoo.  All I found was php5 which will break some apps 
 > > which I will
 > > > need to install.
 > > 
 > > Hi
 > > 
 > > Try "emerge -va =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r6"
 > > 
 > > Gian
 > > -- 
 > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
 > > 
 > > 
 > 
 > As a more general learning point I would add (for the benefit of the OP) that if you want to emerge a specific package you do:
 > 
 > emerge =category/pacakage-<version>
 > 
 > Available versions can be seen by doing:
 > 
 > ls /usr/portage/dev-lang/php/*.ebuild
 > 
 > Which should list all php ebuilds available.
 > 
 > Cheers
 > 
 > David
 > Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list.
 > 
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[gentoo-user] Re: How do I get php4

[Alexander Skwar]

John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>:

> OK, thanks much -- the strange thing is when I did emerge -s php how
> come I did not see the php4 packages -- only the php5 ones?

That's simple - there are no "php4" or "php5" packagews. There's only
a php package (dev-lang/php), as can be seen by running "emerge -s php":

*  dev-lang/php
      Latest version available: 5.1.6-r8
      Latest version installed: 5.1.6-r8
      Size of files: 6,389 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.php.net/
      Description:   The PHP language runtime engine: CLI, CGI and Apache SAPIs.
      License:       PHP-3

Which version to emerge is determined by selecting the appropriate
version.

> Also, is there any way while doing a search to see the reason for a
> package being masked?

Check out the file profiles/package.mask in your portage tree;
eg. /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask.

Alexander Skwar

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RE: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[John covici]

I am having trouble unmasking a php4 ebuild.  I have in my
/etc/portage/package.keywords  the following line
dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86
but emerge still complains about the package being masked.  What am I
doing wrong here?

Thanks.

on Tuesday 01/09/2007 Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\)(David.Nelson2@astrazeneca.com) wrote
 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: Gian Domeni Calgeer [mailto:gidoca@gmx.ch]
 > > Sent: 09 January 2007 12:46
 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 13:36 schrieb John covici:
 > > > Hi.  I have some apps which need php4 and the appropriate 
 > > modules for
 > > > apache2 and other things like php-pear -- how do I get them into
 > > > gentoo.  All I found was php5 which will break some apps 
 > > which I will
 > > > need to install.
 > > 
 > > Hi
 > > 
 > > Try "emerge -va =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r6"
 > > 
 > > Gian
 > > -- 
 > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
 > > 
 > > 
 > 
 > As a more general learning point I would add (for the benefit of the OP) that if you want to emerge a specific package you do:
 > 
 > emerge =category/pacakage-<version>
 > 
 > Available versions can be seen by doing:
 > 
 > ls /usr/portage/dev-lang/php/*.ebuild
 > 
 > Which should list all php ebuilds available.
 > 
 > Cheers
 > 
 > David
 > Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list.
 > 
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RE: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[Michael Sullivan]

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 08:49 -0500, John covici wrote:
> I am having trouble unmasking a php4 ebuild.  I have in my
> /etc/portage/package.keywords  the following line
> dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86
> but emerge still complains about the package being masked.  What am I
> doing wrong here?
> 
> Thanks.

Is the package hard-masked?  (as in "package.mask" - when you get the
"this package is masked" message, it should tell you all the wways that
it has been masked...)

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RE: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[John covici]

It says masked by keywords -- that is why I did what I did.

on Tuesday 01/09/2007 Michael Sullivan(michael@espersunited.com) wrote
 > On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 08:49 -0500, John covici wrote:
 > > I am having trouble unmasking a php4 ebuild.  I have in my
 > > /etc/portage/package.keywords  the following line
 > > dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86
 > > but emerge still complains about the package being masked.  What am I
 > > doing wrong here?
 > > 
 > > Thanks.
 > 
 > Is the package hard-masked?  (as in "package.mask" - when you get the
 > "this package is masked" message, it should tell you all the wways that
 > it has been masked...)
 > 
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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:49, John covici wrote:
> I am having trouble unmasking a php4 ebuild.  I have in my
> /etc/portage/package.keywords  the following line
> dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86
> but emerge still complains about the package being masked.  What am I
> doing wrong here?

"dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8" is an invalid atom. "=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8" 
or "~dev-lang/php-4.4.4" would be valid atoms. You can read more about valid 
atoms in `man 5 ebuild`.

PS: Please stop top-posting:

  A: Because it messes up the order in which people read text.
  Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
  A: Top-posting.
  Q: What is the most annoying thing on mailing lists?

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:49:16 -0500, John covici wrote:

> I am having trouble unmasking a php4 ebuild.  I have in my
> /etc/portage/package.keywords  the following line
> dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86
> but emerge still complains about the package being masked.  What am I
> doing wrong here?

That should be "=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86"

If a package contains a version, it must start with one or more of
=, ~, >, <, !

PS, please don't top post.


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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:18, John covici wrote:
> Also, is there any way while doing a search to see the reason for a
> package being masked?

# eix -e php
[I] dev-lang/php
     Available versions:
        (4)     !4.3.11-r5 4.4.4-r6 ~4.4.4-r8
        (5)     5.0.5-r5 5.1.6-r6 ~5.1.6-r8
     Description:         The PHP language runtime engine: CLI, CGI and Apache SAPIs.

This shows that 4.3.11-r5 is masked by missing keyword and 4.4.4-r8 is masked
by ~keyword. It's all explained in `man eix`. And of course it requires you to
install app-portage/eix. As an added bonus eix is way faster that `emerge -s`.
:)

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[John covici]

OK, that did it -- now I have to find out why it wants a bunch of X
libraries, but that is another question for another day.

thanks much guys for all your help.



on Tuesday 01/09/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen(bo.andresen@zlin.dk) wrote
 > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:49, John covici wrote:
 > > I am having trouble unmasking a php4 ebuild.  I have in my
 > > /etc/portage/package.keywords  the following line
 > > dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86
 > > but emerge still complains about the package being masked.  What am I
 > > doing wrong here?
 > 
 > "dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8" is an invalid atom. "=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8" 
 > or "~dev-lang/php-4.4.4" would be valid atoms. You can read more about valid 
 > atoms in `man 5 ebuild`.
 > 
 > PS: Please stop top-posting:
 > 
 >   A: Because it messes up the order in which people read text.
 >   Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
 >   A: Top-posting.
 >   Q: What is the most annoying thing on mailing lists?
 > 
 > -- 
 > Bo Andresen

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RE: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John covici [mailto:covici@ccs.covici.com]
> Sent: 09 January 2007 14:39
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4
> 
> 
> OK, that did it -- now I have to find out why it wants a bunch of X
> libraries, but that is another question for another day.
> 
> thanks much guys for all your help.
> 

--snip --


You can do:

USE="-X" emerge =category/foo-1.2.3-r4

For example this should in some cases stop (the fictional package) foo pulling in X libs.


>  > 
>  > PS: Please stop top-posting:
>  > 
>  >   A: Because it messes up the order in which people read text.
>  >   Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>  >   A: Top-posting.
>  >   Q: What is the most annoying thing on mailing lists?
>  > 
>  > -- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[John J. Foster]

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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:38:34AM -0500, John covici wrote:
> OK, that did it -- now I have to find out why it wants a bunch of X
> libraries, but that is another question for another day.
> 
> thanks much guys for all your help.
> 
Thanks so much for listening to others concerning group etiquette and
top-posting.

festus

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[Mark Shields]

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On 1/9/07, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:49:16 -0500, John covici wrote:
>
> > I am having trouble unmasking a php4 ebuild.  I have in my
> > /etc/portage/package.keywords  the following line
> > dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86
> > but emerge still complains about the package being masked.  What am I
> > doing wrong here?
>
> That should be "=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86"
>
> If a package contains a version, it must start with one or more of
> =, ~, >, <, !
>
> PS, please don't top post.
>
>
> --
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>
> Master of all I survey (at the moment, empty pizza boxes)
>
>
>
"=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86" is excessive. "=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8" is all
that is needed for the package.keywords file.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:09:46 -0500, Mark Shields wrote:

> "=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86" is excessive. "=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8" is
> all that is needed for the package.keywords file.

You are assuming that make.conf contains ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86", this may
not be the case.

Omitting the arch from package.keywords is a special case that may not
always apply. It is better to be specific than rely on assumptions...
unless those four bytes of disk space are critical


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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[Uwe Thiem]

On 09 January 2007 17:35, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Neil Bothwick
> 
> There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking
> like an idiot.

A very fine one. ;-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

[Kent Fredric]

On 1/10/07, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:09:46 -0500, Mark Shields wrote:
>
> > "=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86" is excessive. "=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8" is
> > all that is needed for the package.keywords file.
>
> You are assuming that make.conf contains ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86", this may
> not be the case.
>
> Omitting the arch from package.keywords is a special case that may not
> always apply. It is better to be specific than rely on assumptions...
> unless those four bytes of disk space are critical
>
>
> --
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Indeed, I've been paranoid on occasions where the situation I wasn't
sure what i would get, so just to be certain ( im using
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" and i got sick of the kernel updating so often
) I did

=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6 x86 -~x86

its probably a little non-standard, but at least theres no real ambiguity.

>
> There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking
> like an idiot.
>
>
>


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