Re: [Mageia-dev] Adding additional provides to php database modules

2012-01-04 Thread Oliver Burger
Am Mittwoch, 28. Dezember 2011, 17:01:17 schrieb Guillaume Rousse: Le 19/12/2011 03:02, Thomas Spuhler a écrit : Could you please explain a little more what you are looking for. PHP provides the php-mysql and php-pdo-mysql He wants to add a php-database virtual package, provided by the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Adding additional provides to php database modules

2012-01-04 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 04/01/2012 20:08, Oliver Burger a écrit : The only problem here is that, pdo aside, there is no unified database interface in php. Some applications may have explicit support for some databases, this doesn't mean they have generic support for any database. You're likely to quickly run into

Re: [Mageia-dev] Adding additional provides to php database modules

2011-12-28 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Saturday, December 17, 2011 03:24:16 PM Oliver Burger wrote: Hi, I'm maintaining mediawiki and drupal. Both packages require a php database module but both can work with mysql, postgresql and sqlite. Now the mediawiki package does simply require both php-mysql and php-pgsql, which

Re: [Mageia-dev] Adding additional provides to php database modules

2011-12-28 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 19/12/2011 03:02, Thomas Spuhler a écrit : Could you please explain a little more what you are looking for. PHP provides the php-mysql and php-pdo-mysql He wants to add a php-database virtual package, provided by the different php database bindings. The only problem here is that, pdo

Re: [Mageia-dev] Adding additional provides to php database modules

2011-12-18 Thread Oliver Burger
Am Samstag, 17. Dezember 2011, 18:30:56 schrieb Thomas Spuhler: On Saturday, December 17, 2011 03:24:16 PM Oliver Burger wrote: I think it would be a cleaner solution to have php-X providing something common and php-pdo_X providing something common (X being one of mysql, pgsql or

Re: [Mageia-dev] Adding additional provides to php database modules

2011-12-18 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Sunday, December 18, 2011 02:36:42 AM Oliver Burger wrote: Am Samstag, 17. Dezember 2011, 18:30:56 schrieb Thomas Spuhler: On Saturday, December 17, 2011 03:24:16 PM Oliver Burger wrote: I think it would be a cleaner solution to have php-X providing something common and php-pdo_X

[Mageia-dev] Adding additional provides to php database modules

2011-12-17 Thread Oliver Burger
Hi, I'm maintaining mediawiki and drupal. Both packages require a php database module but both can work with mysql, postgresql and sqlite. Now the mediawiki package does simply require both php-mysql and php-pgsql, which is bad since it leads to installing unneeded database libraries in the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Adding additional provides to php database modules

2011-12-17 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Saturday, December 17, 2011 03:24:16 PM Oliver Burger wrote: Hi, I'm maintaining mediawiki and drupal. Both packages require a php database module but both can work with mysql, postgresql and sqlite. Now the mediawiki package does simply require both php-mysql and php-pgsql, which