Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: Apache "-D PHP5" needs update to "-D PHP"

[Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>]

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On 1/4/2016 3:41 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> On 01/04/2016 01:26 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>> Hi!
> 
> 
>> Better late then never.  Posting 72 hours from now the earliest
>> as advised by GLEP 42.  Feedback welcome as usual.
> 
> Do you have any timeline in place for the change happening in tree
> (in particular for stable users).
> 
> 
>> Without updating APACHE2_OPTS, websites could end up serving PHP
>>  code (include configuration files with passwords) unprocessed to
>>  website visitors!
> 
> 
> Such a change should really be avoided if possible. Would it be 
> possible to have a conditional approach where either one can be
> used, or maybe set the new variable/defin if the old one is used?
> 
> 

The problem is really two-fold with the new eselect-php.

For future compatibility (to not have this happen again with say
PHP8), the PHP team changed the symlink created by eselect to be
libphp.so instead of the current libphp${MAJOR}.so.

The user must also reselect with `eselect php set X`, even for the
current PHP versions and not just 7.

mjo explored the option of "<IfDefine PHP5>Define PHP</IfDefine>" but
that is apache-2.4+ only.

If we wanted a "compatibility" layer, it would be the same section
repeated until 2.4 was the only version available.  That might confuse
users even more.

Brian
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