Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:28:52 -0500 From: eculp@encontacto.net To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: outdated PEAR ports? Message-ID: <20070421082852.7agk4xexsk8cogcc@intranet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <4629F6BB.6060508@mail.ru> References: <4629F6BB.6060508@mail.ru>
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Quoting rihad <rihad@mail.ru>: > Hi, I need to install several packages from PEAR, among which are =20 > MDB2, LiveUser. The problem is that the named packages are a bit =20 > outdated: > > PEAR port: 1.5.0_1 upstream: 1.5.2 > MDB2 port: 2.3.0 upstream: 2.4.0 > LiveUser port 0.15.1 upstream: 0.16.2 You can leave the ports and upgrade with the pear command. set the Preferred Package State preferred_state [alpha|beta|stable] the execute # pear upgrade-all or # pear upgrade MDB2 should solve the problem. I actually just have the pear port installed. # ls -d /var/db/pkg/*pear* /var/db/pkg/pear-1.5.0_1 and my pear-list is # pear list Installed packages, channel pear.php.net: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Package Version State Archive_Tar 1.3.2 stable Archive_Zip 0.1.1 beta Auth_SASL 1.0.2 stable Cache 1.5.5RC4 beta Console_Getopt 1.2.2 stable Crypt_CBC 0.4 stable Crypt_CHAP 1.0.1 stable DB 1.7.11 stable Date 1.4.7 stable Date_Holidays 0.17.0 alpha File 1.2.2 stable File_PDF 0.2.0 beta HTTP 1.4.0 stable HTTP_Download 1.1.1 stable HTTP_Header 1.2.0 stable HTTP_Request 1.4.0 stable Log 1.9.10 stable MDB2 2.4.0 stable MDB2_Driver_mysql 1.4.0 stable MDB2_Driver_mysqli 1.4.0 stable MIME_Type 1.0.0 stable Mail 1.1.14 stable Mail_Mime 1.4.0RC1 beta Net_DIME 0.3 beta Net_FTP 1.3.2 stable Net_LDAP 0.7.1 beta Net_Ping 2.4.1 stable Net_SMS 0.2.0 beta Net_SMTP 1.2.10 stable Net_Sieve 1.1.5 stable Net_Socket 1.0.7 stable Net_URL 1.0.14 stable PEAR 1.5.2 stable SOAP 0.10.1 beta Services_Weather 1.4.2 stable Structures_Graph 1.0.2 stable System_Command 1.0.6 stable Text_Wiki 1.2.0RC2 beta VFS 0.2.0 beta XML_Parser 1.2.8 stable XML_RPC 1.5.1 stable XML_SVG 1.0.2 stable XML_Serializer 0.18.0 beta XML_Util 1.1.4 stable You will notice that even the pear version I'm running is newer than =20 the port and have no problems. Just do it the way that is easier for you. I didn't want to be =20 bothered with portupgrades on so many pear packages. Good luck, ed > > etc. etc. I could continue this list easily. Some of the packages =20 > (i.e. LiveUser) haven't had a maintainer for quite some time (as =20 > denoted by the orphaned ports@freebsd.org maintainer email). Since =20 > the ports folks don't seem to be keeping up the pace, can I simply =20 > install the PEAR's port (i.e. bootstrap) and then install all the =20 > necessary PEAR packages from within the PEAR installer? What =20 > undesirable effects could/will this have in practice? I understand =20 > one should use the ports subsystem wherever possible, but this is =20 > just not the case where this is possible ;-) > > Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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