Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:59:15 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: getting ports updated on an older FreeBSD (5.1) Message-ID: <558911D3.4030109@physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <20150622160929.GC92373@ozzmosis.com> References: <5587E158.2020702@physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20150622160929.GC92373@ozzmosis.com>
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Am 22.06.2015 um 18:09 schrieb andrew clarke: > On Mon 2015-06-22 12:20:08 UTC+0200, Christoph Kukulies (kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de) wrote: > >> I'm running a somewhat come into age server under FreeBSD 5.1 at the >> moment and I'm in need to update to php5. Trying to install php-5.0.0 >> in ports results in an error message >> >> fetch: >> http://www.t.ring.gr.jp/archives/net/www/php/distributions/php-5.0.0.tar.bz2: >> Not Found > You'll probably need to download php-5.0.0.tar.bz2 manually and move > it to /usr/ports/distfiles/. Although you may be right with regard to obsoleteness of 5.0.0 and my 5.1 version in general, I'm wondering whether it would be possible to run a 10.1 executable under 5.1 (possible link it statically?). At the moment I'm urgently in need to update an intranet forum (pbpBB3) to a 3.1.5 version and this requires a newer (>= 5.3.3) version of php. -- Christoph > > I imagine you're using the ports tree supplied with FreeBSD 5.1, which > would be very old, so you'll encounter missing distfiles like the > above. > > You could update your ports tree, however the ports tree in 2015 is no > longer compatible with FreeBSD 5.1. > > I suspect PHP 5.0.0 is EOL upstream and has security issues and other > bugs. I wouldn't recommend using it. > > Upgrading your server to a modern version of FreeBSD would allow you > to install current supported versions of PHP, etc. >
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