Correct procedure for upgading from php4 to php5

[Kevin Kinsey]

Mike Loiterman wrote:

>What would be the correct way to upgrade from php4 to php5?
>
>I tried:
>
># portupgrade -rRno /usr/ports/www/mod_php5 mod_php4-4.4.1_3,1
>
>But that only shows that it would upgrade the mod_php4 port and skip
>everything else:
>
> --->  Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) 
>         - lang/perl5.8 (perl-5.8.7) 
>         - converters/libiconv (libiconv-1.9.2_1) 
>         - textproc/expat2 (expat-1.95.8_3) 
>         - www/apache20 (apache-2.0.55_2) 
>         + www/mod_php5 (mod_php4-4.4.1_3,1) 
>         - databases/php4-mysql (php4-mysql-4.4.1_3) 
>         - devel/php4-tokenizer (php4-tokenizer-4.4.1_3) 
>         - devel/php4-gettext (php4-gettext-4.4.1_3) 
>         - archivers/php4-zlib (php4-zlib-4.4.1_3) 
>         - sysutils/php4-posix (php4-posix-4.4.1_3) 
>         - lang/php4-overload (php4-overload-4.4.1_3) 
>         - archivers/php4-bz2 (php4-bz2-4.4.1_3) 
>         - textproc/php4-xml (php4-xml-4.4.1_3) 
>         - security/php4-mcrypt (php4-mcrypt-4.4.1_3) 
>         - textproc/php4-ctype (php4-ctype-4.4.1_3) 
>         - security/php4-mhash (php4-mhash-4.4.1_3) 
>         - security/php4-openssl (php4-openssl-4.4.1_3) 
>         - databases/adodb (adodb-4.68) 
>         - graphics/phplot (phplot-4.4.6_2) 
>         - converters/php4-mbstring (php4-mbstring-4.4.1_3) 
>         - graphics/php4-gd (php4-gd-4.4.1_3) 
>         - graphics/jpgraph (jpgraph-1.19) 
>         - devel/php4-pcre (php4-pcre-4.4.1_3) 
>         - www/php4-session (php4-session-4.4.1_3) 
>         - www/eaccelerator (eaccelerator-0.9.4.r1_1) 
>         - www/phpSysInfo (phpSysInfo-2.3) 
>         - print/pecl-pdflib (pecl-pdflib-2.0.4) 
>         - www/phpwiki (phpwiki-1.2.10_1) 
>         - lang/php4-extensions (php4-extensions-1.0) 
>         - www/gallery2 (gallery2-2.0.2) 
>         - mail/squirrelmail (squirrelmail-1.4.5_2) 
>         - www/drupal (drupal-4.6.4) 
>         - databases/phpmyadmin (phpMyAdmin-2.7.0.1)
>
>How can I get it to upgrade the other php4 ports to their respective php5
>versions?
>
>  
>

I assume lang/php4-extensions is installed?  What if you use a
comparable command on that target?

Incidentally:  as you probably know, several of the packages
listed (e.g. squirrelmail, phpwiki, gallery, etc.) are independent
of your PHP version and would only be "upgraded" if newer
versions have been released, AFAIK.

Kevin Kinsey

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