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

[Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>]

On 01/06/2016 02:36 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> On 05.01.2016 20:35, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> I just pushed a new revision with this fix. In eselect-php-0.8.2-r1,
>> we ship both the new 70_mod_php.conf and the old 70_mod_php5.conf. The
>> latter comes with a big warning at the top of it, stating that it is for
>> backwards compatibility only.
> 
> Cool, sounds like a great idea to me.
> 
> I guess we don't need a news item any more then?
> 

Upgraders still have a problem, but a much less severe one. After
upgrading eselect-php, further attempts to `eselect php set apache2`
will appear to have no effect, because the old 70_mod_php5.conf is
loading the old symlink to libphp5.so. There are a few options:

1. Leave things as is, and tell people what to do (read the elog) if
   they hit this situation.

2. Proceed with a news item that basically says "read the elog."

3. I could try to hack some magic into eselect-php to detect whether or
   not you have -DPHP5 set. Something simple, like grepping /etc/conf.d
   /apache2 for "PHP5". In that case we could omit a notice.
   This one simultaneously makes the most sense and feels like the
   biggest hack.