Grant Peel wrote:
I have a somewhat broken installation of php 4.4.7 and the extensions
and want to completely remove them and reinstall them.
How does one conpletely remove php4 (from ports) and the extensions
to ensure a clean install?
Make sure you have good backups. Also make sure you have a handy list of
all the ports you started with:
# pkg_info -Ia /root/initial.ports
Now, delete the lang/php4 port and everything that depends on it. The
easiest way to do this is with the pkg_deinstall program which is part
of portupgrade(1):
# pkg_deinstall -dfr php4
'php4' is actually a packagename glob, so this will delete any package
mentioning 'php4' in its name, plus every thing depending on those ports.
So it will delete pure PECL or PEAR code modules and end user applications
as well.
Then regenerate the list of ports you've got installed and diff it
against the initial list as a sanity check:
# pkg_info -Ia /root/final.ports
# diff -u initial.ports final.ports
That should be pretty much it. If you've stripped out everything PHP
related then /usr/local/lib/php/ and /usr/local/share/pear/ should be
empty or gone completely, and there should be no ports left with 'php',
'pear' or 'pecl' prominently in their names. Nor should you have
'eaccelerator' or 'zend' related stuff still there.
You'll still have some PHP related files in /usr/local/etc/ which you
can delete or not as required -- they all have php in the name or
directory path making them quite easy to identify. Note however that
if you're intending to upgrade to PHP5 then you must delete
/usr/local/etc/php.conf first, as that's the file that tells bsd.php.mk
which version of PHP you're using.
Cheers,
Matthew
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