removing a php5-pcre extension

Mike Clarke jmc-freebsd2 at milibyte.co.uk
Tue Dec 9 06:07:58 PST 2008


On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Now that pcre is included in the base installation, how do I remove
> it?
>
> $ pkg_delete -nv php5-pcre-5.2.6_2
> pkg_delete: package 'php5-pcre-5.2.6_2' is required by these other
> packages and may not be deinstalled:
> pear-1.7.2
> pear-Auth-1.6.1
> pear-Auth_SASL-1.0.2
> pear-DB-1.7.13,1
> pear-Log-1.10.1
> pear-Mail_Mime-1.5.2,1
> pear-Mail_mimeDecode-1.5.0
> pear-Net_SMTP-1.3.0
> pear-Net_Socket-1.0.8
> pear-Pager-2.4.6
> pecl-filter-0.11.0
> php5-extensions-1.2
> phpMyAdmin-3.1.0
> smarty-2.6.19
> pkg_delete: 1 package deletion(s) failed
>
> Am I safe just deleting it? Or do I have to rebuild all the above
> listed ports? Leaving it as is is probably not a good idea...

/usr/ports/UPDATING seems to imply you should be OK to force delete it -

20081207:
  AFFECTS: users of lang/php5
  AUTHOR: pav at FreeBSD.org

  As of php 5.2.7, pcre extension is distributed with the core php5 
package, and not as a standalone module anymore.  Follow these steps to 
update your installation:

  Portupgrade users:
   pkg_delete -f php5-pcre-5.2.6
   pkgdb -F
   portupgrade as usual


-- 
Mike Clarke


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