From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 23 07:59:30 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@nevdull.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2709F3 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 07:59:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from mx-out-1.rwth-aachen.de (mx-out-1.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.5.186]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mx-out-1.rwth-aachen.de", Issuer "RWTH Aachen CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E697EF7A for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 07:59:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,664,1427752800"; d="scan'208";a="458190480" Received: from hub2.rwth-ad.de (HELO mail.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.26.143]) by mx-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; 23 Jun 2015 09:59:19 +0200 Received: from [172.27.4.215] (87.79.34.228) by mail.rwth-aachen.de (134.130.26.143) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.235.1; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:59:18 +0200 Message-ID: <558911D3.4030109@physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:59:15 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Organization: I. Physikalisches Institut Ib RWTH-Aachen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: andrew clarke CC: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: getting ports updated on an older FreeBSD (5.1) References: <5587E158.2020702@physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20150622160929.GC92373@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <20150622160929.GC92373@ozzmosis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMWin-Version: 3.1.3.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 07:59:30 -0000 Am 22.06.2015 um 18:09 schrieb andrew clarke: > On Mon 2015-06-22 12:20:08 UTC+0200, Christoph Kukulies (kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de) wrote: > >> I'm running a somewhat come into age server under FreeBSD 5.1 at the >> moment and I'm in need to update to php5. Trying to install php-5.0.0 >> in ports results in an error message >> >> fetch: >> http://www.t.ring.gr.jp/archives/net/www/php/distributions/php-5.0.0.tar.bz2: >> Not Found > You'll probably need to download php-5.0.0.tar.bz2 manually and move > it to /usr/ports/distfiles/. Although you may be right with regard to obsoleteness of 5.0.0 and my 5.1 version in general, I'm wondering whether it would be possible to run a 10.1 executable under 5.1 (possible link it statically?). At the moment I'm urgently in need to update an intranet forum (pbpBB3) to a 3.1.5 version and this requires a newer (>= 5.3.3) version of php. -- Christoph > > I imagine you're using the ports tree supplied with FreeBSD 5.1, which > would be very old, so you'll encounter missing distfiles like the > above. > > You could update your ports tree, however the ports tree in 2015 is no > longer compatible with FreeBSD 5.1. > > I suspect PHP 5.0.0 is EOL upstream and has security issues and other > bugs. I wouldn't recommend using it. > > Upgrading your server to a modern version of FreeBSD would allow you > to install current supported versions of PHP, etc. >