[gentoo-user] php4 vs php5

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Hello,

I've installed php4 as needed by a package (JFFNMS). Everytime I run 
a 'emerge -uDp world' It wants to upgrade the php4 to either php5
or another form of php4. This gets a little confusing, so I'll try
to be very clear. I do not have php5 installed, and I do not want
php5 installed on this system. I've tried all sorts of machinations
in the /etc/portage dir, without success.

Here's what I have installed:

dev-lang/php
     Available versions:  4.3.11-r5 4.4.1-r3 ~4.4.2 [M]5.0.5-r5 [M]5.1.2
     Installed:           none

dev-php/mod_php
Installed:           4.4.0-r9

dev-php/php
Installed:           4.4.0-r4


So I've tried various entries in my /etc/portage/package.mask file to get the
system happy. package.mask contains:
'>=dev-lang/php-5.0.5'

Focusing on php, I run  'emerge -pv dev-lang/php'
and here is the response.

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B     ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2)
[blocks B     ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2)
[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/php-4.4.2 

So the question is what do I put in /etc/portage/? file to get
the system to accept the older dev-php files and not try to install
'dev-lang/php' ?

I cannot just install 'dev-lang/php' as it is blocked by the (2)
dev-php files that I need:
dev-php/mod_php and dev-php/php. Of coarse, take what I'm saying 
with a grain of salt, as I'm describing the symptoms of a php
problem without fully understandings what these package name/group
changes really mean...(where does one read about what the developers
are doing with php and why?). 
jffnms is the critical package here that is causing the php heartburn.....

Everythings works, I just want the system to quit asking to upgrade
php, everytime I upgrade the rest of the system.

ideas?  What did I miss?


James



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