lang/php72 needed

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 8:38 AM Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:

> Paul Procacci wrote:
> > Having lots of php72 is no problem if you `find | xargs`.
> > I tried this and didn't _really_ run into any problems.
> > I didn't try any of the extensions however.
> >
> > This is what I did:
> > # svn co -r r559730  https://svn.freebsd.org/port/head /tmp/ports
> > # cd /tmp/ports
> > # find . -iname "php72*" -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -I% cp -R %
> /usr/ports/%
> > # cd /usr/ports/lang/php72
> > # make install
> >
> > There were some errors, but they were easily cleaned up by installing the
> > missing pieces via pkg.  Just to name one:
> > # pkg install p5-Locale-gettext
>
> This will not work in poudriere. I'd like to have a reproducible build,
> if possible, not some kind of one-time hack.
>

And suddenly you introduce another condition to your original request!


[dd]
>
> >
> > Extensions would be similar, but I didn't try any.
>
> There may be many dependencies to fix.
>
> I have already tried going your way with the php52 port on a recent
> FreeBSD, this turned out to be an unpleasant manual process of fixing
> dependencies etc, and eventually I failed to overcome the problem.
>
> It's strange and alarming that nobody cares in the FreeBSD world. In
> Linux, you can install all versions from packages.sury.org, and what's
> more, you can even have different versions simultaneously on one system.
>

Then what stops you from migrating the legacy moodle to Linux??
If anything, just virtualize the Linux on the same server and you're home
and dry.


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