PHP upgrade through port

[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 at ..., so check the archives in case of difficulty.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>