Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming masking of dev-lang/php-4* and packages depending on it

[Christian Hoffmann]

On 2007-10-10 at 22:44 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote:

> Since you're doing the masking, can you please help out the GDP by
> reviewing a few of our documents for any potential changes that must
> be made? Grepping for "php4" shows that there are references in the
> following docs:

The occurences of -D PHP4 in all 4 documents can safely be replaced by
-D PHP5, syntactically (assuming the software in question works with
php-5 as well, but the ebuilds do not depend on =php-4* explictily, so
I guess it's the case here).

Additionally:

> 1. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/jffnms.xml
sed s:apache2-php4:apache2-php5:g
sed s:/usr/share/php4:/usr/share/php5:
I'm not sure about the last sentence on the page:
> You may also run into problems when configuring Apache to work with
> PHP (specially if you run both PHP4 and PHP5 on the same system). In
> that case, our Configuring Apache to Work with PHP4 and PHP5 guide
> may give you some help."
Maybe removing it completely would be best?

> 2. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/apache-troubleshooting.xml
This is outdated regarding php anyway:
> $ equery depends www-servers/apache
> [ Searching for packages depending on www-servers/apache... ]
> dev-php/phpsysinfo-2.3-r2
> dev-php/phpsysinfo-2.1-r2
> dev-php/mod_php-4.3.11-r2
^^ should be dev-lang/php-5.2.4_p20070914-r2
> net-www/mod_layout-4.0.1a-r1
> www-servers/gorg-0.5
>
> (then rebuild any modules you have installed)
> # emerge -av '=dev-php/mod_php-4.3.11-r2'
^^ same here, must be '=dev-lang/php-5.2.4_p20070914-r2' (is it really
useful to specify full versions here?)
> '=net-www/mod_layout-4.0.1.a-r1'


I know that the PHP documentation itself needs a lot of updates, too,
(not only regarding masking of php-4) and I'll try to work on it in the
next weeks.

-- 
Christian Hoffmann
Gentoo PHP herd