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Hi Ben, |
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> So, I know I'm a bad gentoo administrator and all, but I am just getting |
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> around to moving from php 4 to 5. Was wondering if anyone knew of any |
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> gotchas to watch out for or guides to help with the process. Everything I'm |
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> finding through google seems to be about the update from the old php |
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> 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 are |
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> the chances of it being that easy? |
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It depends on the php scripts you use. |
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If they are php5 compatible, the migration should be smooth. |
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php-dependant libraries need to be re-emerged, same goes for pecl packages |
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(pecl4 -> pecl5). |
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If you've got scripts which are php5 incompatible, you have a problem. |
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One solution is to run php4 as cgi for that specific docroot, or have both |
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php4 and php5 running as modules using the concurrent patch (but I wouldn't |
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advise that as it *sadly* isn't supported upstream). |
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I just wish they would make it easier for running different php versions on |
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the same server, as apache modules....and now with php6 being |
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released "soon".... but oh well ;-) |
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Hope this helped. |
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regards, |
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Georges Toth |
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