FreeBSD Port: php4-extensions-1.0 (Bug?)

[D. Hampton Finger]

I have found what I feel to be a bug or a shortcoming in the way the 
php4-extensions-1.0 meta port works.

If you install the port the first time, it works very well.  However, if 
you go to add an additional one or many additional extensions with an 
additional use of the port, the /usr/local/etc/php/extensions file gets 
populated without checking for old/current entries.  I.E. if you need to 
go back and add the mssql extension, the default listings from the port
be added again.  This creates duplicate listings of extensions in the 
file.  The duplicate listings cause php to kick out errors, and 
those errors are not handled by apache well (Signal 11 core dump).

Perhaps a better parsing of the extensions file upon additions/removals of 
extensions is in order as the information as to which extensions have been 
installed is listed in /var/db/pkg as well as in /var/db/ports.

There has been some chatter on the net about his issue, but I didn't find 
where people had figured it out that it was the php extensions being 
called twice or more causing php to error and bringing down apache.  most 
users who found this simply reloaded from the ground up which fixed it.

This may be an issue with all the other php extensions, but I didn't test 
those.

Thank you for your time,
 	Hampton

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D. Hampton Finger                     locnar at mail.utexas.edu
CWRL Systems Analyst		      PH:  512-636-1701
The University of Texas at Austin     FAX: 512-471-6745
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