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 1JHNgK-0008Fd-EL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:17:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A438E013F; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:17:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dozer.foobar.lu (dozer.foobar.lu [80.90.44.130]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B20AE013F for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:17:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by dozer.foobar.lu with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JHNgE-00012t-WB for gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:17:03 +0100 X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.9992 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 4796331b40031395529359 X-DSPAM-Factors: 27, X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at foobar.lu Received: from dozer.foobar.lu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dozer.foobar.lu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id B-38yJcBUxX0 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:16:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from phreak.foobar.lu ([80.90.62.47] helo=[192.168.100.100]) by dozer.foobar.lu with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JHNg7-00012N-G4 for gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:16:55 +0100 Message-ID: <47963313.3070709@foobar.lu> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:16:51 +0100 From: Yves Thommes User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) 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> <479617AD.3040800@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <479617AD.3040800@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bdb356b6-614a-4ada-abe3-84ca95389eac X-Archives-Hash: 9b85e83a0132b16cca61da2a09f8f917 [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... >>> >>> >>> >> > > -- gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org mailing list