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From: Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming masking of dev-lang/php-4* and packages depending on it
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:42:49
Message-Id: 470E87C0.8080100@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming masking of dev-lang/php-4* and packages depending on it by Josh Saddler
1 Josh Saddler wrote:
2 > Christian Hoffmann wrote:
3 >> On 2007-10-10 at 22:44 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> Since you're doing the masking, can you please help out the GDP by
6 >>> reviewing a few of our documents for any potential changes that must
7 >>> be made? Grepping for "php4" shows that there are references in the
8 >>> following docs:
9 >> The occurences of -D PHP4 in all 4 documents can safely be replaced by
10 >> -D PHP5, syntactically (assuming the software in question works with
11 >> php-5 as well, but the ebuilds do not depend on =php-4* explictily, so
12 >> I guess it's the case here).
13 >>
14 >> Additionally:
15 >>
16 >>> 1. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/jffnms.xml
17 >> sed s:apache2-php4:apache2-php5:g
18 >> sed s:/usr/share/php4:/usr/share/php5:
19 >> I'm not sure about the last sentence on the page:
20 >>> You may also run into problems when configuring Apache to work with
21 >>> PHP (specially if you run both PHP4 and PHP5 on the same system). In
22 >>> that case, our Configuring Apache to Work with PHP4 and PHP5 guide
23 >>> may give you some help."
24 >> Maybe removing it completely would be best?
25 >>
26 >>> 2. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/apache-troubleshooting.xml
27 >> This is outdated regarding php anyway:
28 >>> $ equery depends www-servers/apache
29 >>> [ Searching for packages depending on www-servers/apache... ]
30 >>> dev-php/phpsysinfo-2.3-r2
31 >>> dev-php/phpsysinfo-2.1-r2
32 >>> dev-php/mod_php-4.3.11-r2
33 >> ^^ should be dev-lang/php-5.2.4_p20070914-r2
34 >>> net-www/mod_layout-4.0.1a-r1
35 >>> www-servers/gorg-0.5
36 >>>
37 >>> (then rebuild any modules you have installed)
38 >>> # emerge -av '=dev-php/mod_php-4.3.11-r2'
39 >> ^^ same here, must be '=dev-lang/php-5.2.4_p20070914-r2' (is it really
40 >> useful to specify full versions here?)
41 >>> '=net-www/mod_layout-4.0.1.a-r1'
42 >>
43 >> I know that the PHP documentation itself needs a lot of updates, too,
44 >> (not only regarding masking of php-4) and I'll try to work on it in the
45 >> next weeks.
46 >
47 > Thanks for the fixes; I'll get busy committing them.
48
49 . . . fixed in CVS!

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