[csw-maintainers] php5 packaging

[Mike Watters]

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Mike Watters wrote:
> Ben Walton wrote:
>> Hi All,
> 
>> I updated a box that uses php5 today, so I got the new versions that
>> were just released.  After bringing the webserver back online, the
>> hosted app wasn't responding with anything but the logs showed the
>> requested being handled.
> 
>> Turns out that since many of the modules that used to be part of the
>> core php5 package (session being the one that got me) are now separate
>> packages, I simply needed to pull them in and I was back up and
>> running.
> 
>> I was just wondering if there is a better way to handle situations
>> like this...a user doing a 1:1 update of packages will have less
>> functionality after the update than they did before.  I think the
>> changes are ok overall, but the user interaction may not be.
> 
>> Thoughts?
>> -Ben
> 
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> I didn't think about that part of the upgrade.
> I wrote admin scripts to gracefully handle the php.ini files.
> The new packages do not overwrite the existing php.ini.
> 
> There are a couple ways to handle this I think.
> 
> examine the existing php.ini file for enabled extensions:
> 
> 1) kick off a pkg-get -i for each extension that is enabled.
> 2) display a note to the user to add the extra packages themselves.
> 
> This does not account for anything that was previously compiled
> statically I am not sure if there were any.
> 

I will start by definitely changing the existing php.ini warning
to let the user's know of the new granularity.

does anyone have a preference on the manual vs automatic?


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Thanks,
Mike

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent.  It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage --
to move in the opposite direction."

* Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
    US German-born Theoretical Physicist
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