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

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On 1/4/2016 11:43 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> On 01/04/2016 11:11 AM, Peter Stuge wrote:
>>>
>>> So pkg_postinst for >=eselect-php-0.8.1 should say something,
>>> but ideally also the invocation - but I don't know if eselect-php
>>> is also code or only data managed by eselect?
>>
>> The pkg_postinst is already there. The eselect-php routines are
>> bash code so theoretically we can do anything we want. How do
>> people feel about making eselect-php spit out a warning every time
>> the apache2 module is messed with?
>
> Perhaps grep for -DPHP5 or if -DPHP is missing in the conf.d and shout
> then as part of the "eselect php set apache2 X"?
>

My understanding (which could be wrong) is that this update will break
things even if the user never runs eselect php afterwards.  I can't
tell you the last time I touched the php eselect module, because major
updates to php are rare.



-- 
Rich