From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 13 12:34:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8321065675; Sun, 13 May 2012 12:34:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jos@webrz.net) Received: from webrz.xs4all.nl (webrz.xs4all.nl [82.95.248.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE5A8FC16; Sun, 13 May 2012 12:34:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webrz.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webrz.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18338508CB; Sun, 13 May 2012 14:33:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.10.10.41] (zeus.webrz.net [10.10.10.41]) by webrz.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D3E2D508C9; Sun, 13 May 2012 14:33:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4FAFAA62.4000205@webrz.net> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 14:34:42 +0200 From: Jos Chrispijn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4FAF6E5E.9000200@webrz.net> <4FAF84D5.4030709@FreeBSD.org> <4FAF9F5B.4000905@webrz.net> In-Reply-To: <4FAF9F5B.4000905@webrz.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP @triton.webrz.net Cc: Subject: Re: PHP upgrade through port | SOLVED X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 12:34:44 -0000 Ok, solved; overlooked the /php5-extensions port. regards, Jos Chrispijn Jos Chrispijn: > Hi Matthew, > > Thanks for your reply. > For some reason that didn't work completely; must be because I am > rather a newbie on this. > Now I removed php5.2 all together from my FreeBSD server (including > all related programs). > > If I now want to install php 5.3, how do I install the extensions as > there is no php53-extensions? > Or should I use the php52-extensions instead? > > regards, > Jos > > Matthew Seaman: >> On 13/05/2012 09:18, Jos Chrispijn wrote: >>> Currently I use php52-5.2.17_8 but want to upgrade to php52-5.3.xxx >>> through the ports. >>> Can somebody tell me how I can force portupgrade to do so? >> Basically you should delete any php52 or pecl ports, and anything that >> depends on them. Then install the php53 equivalents, reinstall the pecl >> modules and finally reinstall your php-based applications. >> >> As ever, make sure you have good backups before starting this procedure. >> >> So: >> >> # pkg_info -IX '^(php5|pecl)'> /tmp/php-modules >> # pkg_delete -rX '^php5' 2>&1> /tmp/php-deletion-log >> >> You might also want to save the output of 'pecl list' (if any) and 'pear >> list' if pecl and pear are installed on your system. >> >> Force the correct base version of php to be installed: >> >> # portmaster lang/php5 >> >> Reinstall any ported PHP applications, eg phpMyAdmin: >> >> # portmaster databases/phpmyadmin >> >> (etc., etc. for all the apps you had installed: check >> /tmp/php-deletion-log for details. This should install any necessary >> dependencies.) >> >> Finally, compare what you just installed with the record of what you >> previously installed to fix up any discrepancies, eg. if you have PHP >> applications installed from non-ports sources. >> >> There isn't an exact one-to-one correspondence between php52-* and >> php5-* ports (as I recall), since some functions have been moved into >> the PHP core, or shifted between different modules or moved to pear- or >> pecl- modules. However, those are generally the exceptions: if you >> can't find the exact equivalent php53 module, then (a) try the >> application without, (b) check the documentation on www.php.net for >> clues and finally (c) look for equivalent pear- or pecl- modules. Any >> PHP application installed from ports should automatically install >> everything it needs through the ports dependency mechanism. >> >> Also, if you use eAccelerator or similar, be sure to reinstall it after >> upgrading PHP. >> >> Note: the lang/php5 port is the correct port for php-5.3.x at the time >> of writing, but that port is very soon going to switch to providing >> php-5.4.x, and you would need to switch to lang/php53 if you don't want >> to go through yet another upgrade. >> >> Note 2: beware of the common problem with ordering of extension loadable >> modules in /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini -- some php modules depend >> on others; unfortunately there's no good way of controlling the order >> the modules are listed in extensions.ini to account for this. If php >> crashes on startup, swapping lines around in that file may well be the >> solution. It's been discussed many times on this list and >> freebsd-questions@..., so check the archives in case of difficulty. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew >> >