From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHLy1-00024e-Mw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:27:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BB0EE0CEA; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:20:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from creativecommunications.com (creativecommunications.com [65.17.124.162]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8879E0CEA for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:19:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.178] (unknown [192.168.1.178]) by creativecommunications.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7274168C017 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:19:57 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <479617AD.3040800@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:19:57 -0600 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071228) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] PHP4 References: <20080118110850.C41241@shell.bway.net> <47961632.5000000@foobar.lu> In-Reply-To: <47961632.5000000@foobar.lu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4d1237e2-e6f4-45c7-ae24-6b59cc38f4d9 X-Archives-Hash: 7ce6c9d4a8056a8c8634aff4c6c19c16 So...you know enough to run your ISP on Gentoo (at least I'd hope so), but you think that the ebuilds being removed from portage will mean you can no longer have php4? If you really want to keep it, stick the ebuilds in an overlay and stop complaining. Gentoo is removing the php4 ebuilds from the tree, because it won't be security-supported by upstream very shortly. Gentoo doesn't have the manpower to do security backports and such....we just bump to the next version. Until you're paying to use Gentoo, please don't complain about how the distro does things. Especially when the complaint it "stupid". Yves Thommes wrote: > i suppose we're not the only isp running gentoo and hosting sites like > this, and ezpublish is just an example, there are other cms/ecommerce > systems which don't run on php5. so please, just mask the php4 ebuilds > if you have to, but please don't remove them completely from portage. > > thanks > > A. Khattri wrote: >> How ironic: Gentoo masks PHP4 because of a bunch of bugs and force a >> lot of people to upgrade to PHP5. Then the PHP devs bring out bug >> fixes for PHP4. So if we had waited we wouldn't have gone through the >> pain of upgrading servers to PHP5... >> >> >> > -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org mailing list