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

[Josh Saddler <nightmorph@gentoo.org>]

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Josh Saddler wrote:
> 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 This is outdated regarding php anyway: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.

. . . fixed in CVS!



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