ports default version system

Florian Smeets flo at smeets.im
Sat Nov 9 17:49:25 UTC 2013


On 09/11/13 18:14, Mark Felder wrote:
> 
> On Nov 9, 2013, at 11:09, Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2013-11-09 11:00, Mark Felder wrote:
>>> On Nov 8, 2013, at 20:34, Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> and change the default version of php from lang/php5 to
>>>> lang/php53
>>> Wouldn't that need to be set to lang/php54 as default?
>> The port for php 5.4 is called lang/php5
>> 
>> confusingly, the default port for php is always lang/php5, and
>> every other version is lang/php53 or lang/php55 etc. so when the
>> default gets bumped, php 5.4 will become lang/php54 and php5.5 will
>> change from lang/php55 to lang/php5

No. lang/php5 will die, see r321684 and
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-July/084714.html

>> 
> 
> Maybe this should be coordinated with the move of lang/php5 to
> lang/php54 then? PHP 5.3 is EOL as of March and only receives
> critical security fixes now. It would also unexpectedly downgrade
> existing users to 5.3 in some scenarios.
> 

I think you misunderstood what Alan said, as did I on my first read of
the email.

> Users can specify in /etc/make.conf
>
> DEFAULT_VERSIONS=     perl5=5.18 ruby=2.0 php=5.3 mysql=55p
>
> and change the default version of php from lang/php5 to lang/php53

On reading this a second time it became clear to me that he is not
suggesting changing the default PHP to 5.3, it was merely an example
what users can do if they build their own packages.

Florian

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