Subject: Re: Need feedback for PHP4 update to 4.0.6
To: Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@arresum.inka.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/18/2001 15:57:33
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:58:51AM -0700, Johnny Lam wrote:
[..]
> I considered having a php4 meta-package but rejected it since the php4
> meta-package would contain a confusing set of functionality. To have the
> updated php4 meta-package contain the same functionality as the current
> in-tree php4 packge, the dependencies would look like:
>
> php4-base bare php4 binary + PEAR installation
> php4-dba DBM access
> php4-dbase dBase access
> php4-filepro FilePro access
> php4-gettext gettext I18N API
> php4-sysvsem SysV semaphore API
> php4-sysvshm SysV shared memory API
> php4-wddx Web Distributed Data Exchange API
> php4-xml XML parser
> php4-yp YP API
> php4-zlib zlib compression API
Thats NOT enough, at least devel/php4-session is missing, so a simple php
script which uses session ids doesn't work anymore.
It took my some time to figure out that I have to include this package
and then change /usr/pkg/etc/php.ini.
The current situation is not good.
Bernd