From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 20:19:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA90437B401 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 20:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merle.it.northwestern.edu (merle.it.northwestern.edu [129.105.16.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1801F43F75 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 20:19:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from r-militante@northwestern.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by merle.it.northwestern.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h793JFwe013131 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 22:19:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200308090319.h793JFwe013131@merle.it.northwestern.edu> Received: from merle.it.northwestern.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merle.it.northwestern.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma013034; Fri, 8 Aug 03 22:19:12 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: EMUmail 5.1 X-Originating-Ip: 24.148.66.176 Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Webmail-User: mre037@localhost To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Http_host: merle.it.northwestern.edu From: r-militante@northwestern.edu Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 22:19:12 CDT Subject: why is php4.3.3rc2 the latest version in ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: r-militante@northwestern.edu List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 03:19:18 -0000 hi all i had to cvsup my ports tree make deinstall && make clean install /usr/ports/www/mod_php4 today so i could recompile php for gdlib support. this process updated my version of php from 4.3.1 to 4.3.3rc2. we use pdflib commands pretty frequently on our site, and pdflib5x (pdflib was also upgraded in this process) is not supported in php4.3.3rc2. pdflib version 4.0.1 is also broken in the latest ports tree. many pages on our site were rendered useless, generated error messages, etc. because of the broken pdflib support in php4.3.3rc2. i had to find a way to downgrade my version of php back to 4.3.1 from 4.3.3rc2 in order to fix it, which resulted in unhappy users for a couple of hours while i figured out how to downgrade... i should have done my research, i admit, before trying to upgrade. but - why is 4.3.3rc2 - a *release candidate* the latest version of php in the ports tree? i'm running 4.8-RELEASE, and my ports-supfile looks like *default host=cvsup7.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix is my supfile ok? i'm wondering if my supfile is wrong for what should be a production machine. i didn't think basically experimental ports would be allowed in the latest ports tree... i'm a n00b, so if i'm way off base, please feel free to enlighten me... thanks redmond