PHP 5.4.0 : lang/php54

[Etienne Robillard]

On 05/21/2012 02:51 PM, George Kontostanos wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Chris Rees<utisoft at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> On May 21, 2012 4:17 PM, "George Kontostanos"<gkontos.mail at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I just wanted to understand why did php54 became the default php port.
>>>
>>> Considering that the majority of my clients want to stick with php53
>>> with the susosin patch, I can't blame them, it is really very annoying
>>> that we have to schedule a down time window so that we migrate from
>>> php to php53.
>>>
>>> Because currently there is no other way to do it unless you delete all
>>> your php5 packages and recompile them again under php53. Sure, the web
>>> server will still work even if you delete all php5 packages as long as
>>> apache doesn't restart. But there are many applications who make
>>> certain php cli calls. Those will not work!
>>>
>>> So, my question to the maintainers is, was there a particular reason
>>> that made you take this decision?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> When would have been a better time?
>>
>> Chris
>
> As a rule of thumb, the best time to mark a port as being the default
> is when there is a demand for it.
>
> As a side note, given the fact that FreeBSD is and should be the
> number 1 choice for webservers we have to make sure that before we
> proceed to such a major change we have:
>
> 1) A documented upgrade path
> 2) A documented roll back path
>
> Currently, if we want to stay up to date, we have to either nuke php5
> and reinstall php53 or nuke php5 and reinstall php54.
> This requires down time work and effort. I would never complain if
> there was a security issue that had to make me recompile the full php
> suite. But now, I have to explain to many customers why I need down
> time in order for them to continue using the php53 version.
>
> Cheers

Or in pkgtools.conf, add something to disallow upgrading inconditionally 
php ports if they're sensitive to your business workflow.

hope this helps,

E

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