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Ben Munat wrote: |
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> Hello list, |
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> So, I know I'm a bad gentoo administrator and all, but I am just |
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> getting around to moving from php 4 to 5. Was wondering if anyone knew |
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> of any gotchas to watch out for or guides to help with the process. |
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> Everything I'm finding through google seems to be about the update |
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> from the old php packages to dev-lang/php, which I did a long time ago. |
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> It would be really sweet if I could just unmask php and emerge. What |
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> are the chances of it being that easy? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Ben |
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I would say the chances are 50/50 :) It really depends on what is being |
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used. If you have a lot of complex applications, that use a lot of PEAR |
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or other PHP packages it might take a few goes to get all the packages |
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you need for php5. Also if you have a lot of applications that still |
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are not compatible with PHP 5 (which is my case I believe, still need to |
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find time to go and check it), you will run into problems. |
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I've read somewhere about people moving to php5 will run php4 through |
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cgi, and then just process the document extensions differently. (a |
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simple bash script could go through several sub direcotries renaming all |
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.php to .php4). Just some thoughts. |
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I'd ask you keep us , and specifically me , updated on how well the |
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process goes :D |
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