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

[Josh Saddler]

Christian Hoffmann wrote:
> 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 This is outdated regarding php anyway: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.

Thanks for the fixes; I'll get busy committing them.