Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:29:28 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com>, bob@a1poweruser.com, Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Php5 port and Apache Module Message-ID: <466BB668.2060909@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070610160004.3978A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070610160004.3978A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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Ian Smith wrote:
> Around 6.0 may have been the timeline for this change, but it affected
> users of 5.4 and 5.5 too; one 5.5-STABLE here. I ran into this updating
> phpMyAdmin last year, which also enforced upgrading from php4 to php5 -
> unnecessarily, according to the phpMyAdmin specs - and made it no longer
> possible to install php5 (thus eg phpMyAdmin) from the packages ..
That is incorrect. The phpMyAdmin port works perfectly well with php4.
The *default* version of php that the port would cause to be installed
as a dependency if there was no previously installed php on the system
- -- that changed from 4 to 5 a while back, but that was actually a result
of system-wide changes in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.php.mk
Note that there is not a lot of point installing phpMyAdmin from
packages. The phpMyAdmin port does not compile anything -- all it
does it pull down the dist files and copy them into place. Essentially
what the package does, except that the port gives you immensely greater
flexibility in fitting in with alternate dependencies.
Cheers,
Matthew
- --
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
Flat 3
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate
Kent, CT11 9PW
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