Re: [gentoo-user] php4 vs php5

[kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net>]

James wrote:
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [blocks B     ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2)
> [blocks B     ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2)
> [ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/php-4.4.2 


dev-php is on it's way out and has not been updated in some time. You're 
likely vulnerable at this moment.


> So the question is what do I put in /etc/portage/? file to get
> the system to accept the older dev-php files and not try to install
> 'dev-lang/php' ?

You don't. You remove dev-php and install dev-lang/php when you have 
some time to deal with change. I had no issues moving from dev-php to 
dev-lang/php with 4.4.x and the whole thing took about 30 minutes. 
Didn't even have downtime as Apache had the old module cached until I 
stopped and started to pick up the new build.

However PHP USE flags have gotten a bit more complex. You'll want apache 
(or apache2), cli for the php commandline binary, and session at minimum 
plus anything else you might need.

kashani
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