Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin

[Valentin Bud]

May i ask a question. Why do you use phpmyadmin from ports? It installs
lots of libraries hence possible security threats in the future. So instead
of
taking care of updating a bunch of libraries just for phpmyadmin why don't
you simply download it from http://www.phpmyadmin.net/, put in the apache
doc
root, set it up and so you have to take care to update it when a new version
comes
out.
my 2 cents,
v

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2 at milibyte.co.uk>wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 October 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
> > Hmmm... not entirely sure what has actually gone wrong there, but I
> > suspect your /var/db/pkg directory is probably in a bit of a mess.
> >  Deinstalling phpMyAdmin is simply a matter of removing almost all of
> > the files under /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin -- the only one the port
> > tries to preserve is config.inc.php
>
> Yes, I knew phpMyAdmin kept all its files in one place so replacing it
> with the new version by hand was possible if all else failed but the
> ports system would have still thought it had version 2 and I was rather
> unsure what problems the inconsistency might create later.
> .
> > Can you try:
> >
> > ~   # pkg_delete -f phpMyAdmin-2.11.5.2
>
> Yes, I'd already done that with the same segfault.
>
> > If the worst comes to the worst, you can do this (which is certainly
> > *not* recommended in the general case, just it happens to work for
> > phpMyAdmin which is a port without other things depending on it, and
> > that installs everything into one directory):
> >
> > ~   # cd /usr/local/www
> > ~   # cp phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php /root
> > ~   # rm -rf phpMyAdmin
> > ~   # cd /var/db/pkg
> > ~   # rm -rf phpMyAdmin-2.11.5.2
> > ~   # pkgdb -F
>
> That did the trick, thanks for the help.
>
> > Note: there's no need to reinstall phpMyAdmin because you've upgraded
> > Apache or even PHP.  phpMyAdmin is all native PHP code and identical
> > on disk for whatever combination of PHP interpreter and web server
> > you use.  You just need to copy the Apache config stuff into the new
> > httpd.conf (ie. based on what 'pkg_info -Dx phpMyAdmin' produces).
>
> Yes, but in this case I'd moved my web server temporarily onto another
> machine while I (slowly) upgraded the hardware on this box, hence the
> removal of Apache and PHP. After getting the new hardware back into
> service I installed the newer versions of Apache and PHP, it was just
> by chance that there was still a copy of phpMyAdmin on the system but
> in view of the security vulnerability in 2.11.5.2 I thought I'd better
> replace it with 3.0.0_1.
>
> --
> Mike Clarke
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