Re: ports

["David Lord" <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost>]

On 30 Aug 2012 at 17:27, kalin wrote:

> 
> 
> thanks for the reply...
> 
> i'm coming from the world of freebsd and usually there the ports of a 
> brand new release install all work together.
> 
> now decided to try out netbsd - mostly because of xen - and using the 
> ports in pkgsrc things aren't as pretty. (i know xen doesn't need php or 
> mysql)
> 
> apparently there is no mk.conf in /etc. i can add that. not a problem. 
> but i found a directory under /usr/pkgsrc/lang called just php with a 
> file there called ext.mk which is used when extensions are build. that 
> file references another one called phpversion.mk which appears is the 
> one that determines the actual default version in these 2 lines:
> 
> PHP_VERSION_DEFAULT?=                53
> PHP_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED?=         5 53
> 
> i did try PHP_VERSION_DEFAULT?=  54. not very successfully. since the 
> extensions ports were out of date.
> 
> the actual php directory itself does not have a Makefile. so nothing can 
> be build from it.
> 
> i discovered all this when the all the extensions i need start building 
> with patched versions for php 5.3.10. which by now it's old.
> 
> it looks like if i want to use php 5.4.* i'd have to build all of it 
> myself...

That is the case but worse than that, once you introduce
non default options, to avoid problems you probably need
to build all your packages from a clean pkgsrc release. 

I tend not to build on my firewall/internet hosts and 
have a 2400 MHz pc used for builds of src and pkgsrc.
Build of all 1900 pkgs takes about a week and includes
the 600 pkgs for the internet hosts. Updates to the
internet hosts from pkgs takes a couple of hours each.

For the first few years when using NetBSD 1.5x-1.6x I
had to build custom kernels but was limited to the
prebuilt packages (at that time there were not so many
packages to select from).


David


> anyway...  just saying.
> 
> 
> thanks again for the reply.
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/29/12 10:34 PM, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
> > kalin writes:
> > - ports in pkgsrc are all messed up.
> >
> > The best place to discuss the pkgsrc system is
> > pkgsrc-users%netbsd.org@localhost
> >
> > - i have a default install of netbsd 5.1
> > -
> > - tried to install a simple apache php mysql set up via the pkgs.
> > -
> > - it really gets to be a pain. installed php54 bit all the extensions for
> > - php are build with a Makefile for 5.3. what's the point there?
> >
> > Did you set PHP_VERSION_DEFAULT in /etc/mk.conf?
> >
> > Currently, the default version of PHP is 5.3.  If you wish to
> > use 5.4 as the default/standard version on your installation,
> > you need to add the following to your /etc/mk.conf:
> >
> >     PHP_VERSION_DEFAULT=54
> >
> >
> > --
> > Eric Schnoebelen            eric%cirr.com@localhost         
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> >