Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 11:44:00 -0400 From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkgng deviates from defaults? Message-ID: <54FDBFC0.1090403@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <54FD90AF.1030008@tomse.dk> References: <54FC44A4.7050707@tomse.dk> <20150308134144.GB69925@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54FD90AF.1030008@tomse.dk>
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On 03/09/2015 08:23, Carsten Jensen wrote: > On 03/08/2015 02:41 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 01:46:28PM +0100, Carsten Jensen wrote: >>> >>> It seems that pkgng deviates from installing the defaults. >>> one of the culprits seems to be phpMyAdmin, as trying to upgrade this >>> only it wants php56 >>> deleting phpMyAdmin just shows I have other packages needing php56 in my >>> system. >>> >>> is this a bug? and how can I prevent upgrading to the non-default php56? >> >> The default settings are a ports tree setting not a pkg setting. for >> now the >> ports are hardcoding the required version into the packages, this is a >> legacy of >> the old system, noone has yet been working on this. so beside building >> your own >> packages with poudriere (which will define the default you want) righ >> now there >> is no way to avoid that. >> >> The php case but not only php will require small changes in pkg(8) to >> activate >> smart dependencies: depend on a>1<=2.10 and also adding >> provides/requires (this >> is not very hard to be added in pkg.) and it should also require heavy >> changes >> on the port side! >> >> As far as I know noone has been working on those changes in the port >> side. the >> pkg(8) changes are mostly pending for real use cases in the port side. >> Meaning >> both should be coordinated. >> >> Best regards, >> Bapt >> > > Sorry I don't think I was clear. > Some applications wants php5 and some applications wants php56 when > upgrading using pkg-ng. > Using pkg-ng one cannot upgrade i.e. both phpMyAdmin and an other web > based application due to this conflict. > > So while the upgrade happens to upgrade to php56 it also removes the > other web application, as it only wants php5. > > Most of the applications on the server is maintained by pkg-ng, and it > conflicts itself. > > Basically there are now 2 "default" php versions used by pkg-ng > meaning, _I_ am not trying to upgrade to php56, pkg-ng does but it also > tries to upgrade php5. > > I can't find any hardcode to php56 in the Makefile of databases/phpmyadmin > > I don't know if this is expressed better, I hope so atleast. > > > Cheers > Carsten > I think there is some confusion because the default PHP version in ports recently changed to 5.6, and now the official packages are pulling in 5.6: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=379433 pkg sometimes tries to remove conflicting packages (like ones that need 5.5) unless you "pkg upgrade" without specifying a package and then it has better information on what to reinstall so packages might not get removed.
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