On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 05:11:22PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On October 14, 2007 4:48:54 PM -0500 Josh Tolbert > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >It really is pretty straightforward. You have to get rid of _all_ > >of php4 before you install php5, then make sure the portsdb is > >straightened out. I'm not sure why folks are having so much trouble > >with this... > > > Well, I'll tell you why *I* had trouble with it. When you run "make > install clean" on the php?-extensions port, it *installs* the extensions. > Naturally, I expected that when I ran the uninstall, it would uninstall > the same ports that it installed previously. In fact, when you uninstall > the php4-extensions port, it *says* it uninstalled, but it *does* nothing. > It doesn't even remove the ports from the ports db - nor does it remove > the files installed with each extension port. > > That's *not* expected behavior for a port. > > I had no problem correcting the problem, but I should have had to. If > it's not possible to uninstall the extensions ports from php4-extensions, > then it should tell you that when you try to run deinstall. For me it was > a minor inconvenience. For a newbie, it could be a disaster.
(18:26:23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions>) $ cat pkg-descr This is a "meta-port" to install the extensions for PHP 5. Defaults to: ctype, dom, iconv, pcre, posix, session, simplexml, sqlite, tokenizer and xml. WWW: http://www.php.net/ - Alex Dupre [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't see where you'd get the impression that it would let you deinstall any ports from that metaport. All it does is install other ports. Now, if you'd have done a recursive pkg_delete for ports php?-extensions depends on, it would have deinstalled all the ports it installed...But you'd be in a world of hurt in other ways. Josh -- Josh Tolbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
