Re: [gentoo-server] PHP4

[Yves Thommes <doc@foobar.lu>]

[irony]oh well, you just have to give it to the gentoo community, 
they're always polite and glad to help.[/irony]

thanks for the tip about the local overlay, i have to admit i didn't 
think about that right away. the local overlay seems indeed to be the 
easiest solution.

sorry about the question, but i wasn't complaining at all. it was just a 
simple question and a simple "no we won't continue to include php4 in 
the portage tree, just put the ebuilds in a local overlay if you really 
want to keep php4"-answer would have done the job.

and maybe your answer even motivated me to submit a gentoo-wiki article 
about keeping depracted packages using a local repository. don't worry 
i'll give you credit.
see, my question wasn't so stupid after all ;)

cheers,
take it easy

Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> 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...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

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