painful process.. php53/etc

[Michael Scheidell]

On 6/22/12 12:05 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> N.B. I have no clue on PHP in specific, having avoided it like the
> plague for years, but in general, the proper way to replace one port
> with another is:
> portmaster -o www/php5 www/php53
> This will cause portmaster to do the right things, including fix-up
> all dependent ports to point at the newly installed port. At least, I
> see no reason to re-build all of the ports that depend on PHP. I don't
> think that this produced any changed in APIs or ABIs.

this patch look reasonable? install it right under ale@ UPDATING entry?

RCS file: /home/pcvs/ports/UPDATING,v
retrieving revision 1.1256
diff -u -r1.1256 UPDATING
--- UPDATING    18 Jun 2012 23:23:18 -0000    1.1256
+++ UPDATING    22 Jun 2012 16:16:16 -0000
@@ -252,6 +252,17 @@
    If you want to remain at PHP 5.3, a new port (lang/php53) has been
    created for such purpose.

+20120516:
+  AFFECTS: users of lang/php5 who want to stay at lang/php53
+  AUTHOR: scheidell at FreeBSD.org
+
+  If as above, you want to stay at lang/php53, and you have lang/php5 (5.3)
+  currently installed, you should allow portmaster to fix this up for you.
+  Update your ports tree, and do this:
+  portmaster -o lang/php53 lang/php5
+  It should do the right things, including fix-up all the dependent ports
+  to point at the newly installed port. (with thanks to Kevin Oberman)
+

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