From baggins at pld-linux.org  Thu Jun 12 20:27:37 2014
From: baggins at pld-linux.org (Jan =?utf-8?Q?R=C4=99korajski?=)
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:27:37 +0200
Subject: [ANN] PHP changes in Th
Message-ID: <20140612182736.GB1318@home.lan>

Hi,
After a lot of time and work from Elan Ruusam?e, we have new PHP
package sets in Th.  We decided it will be the best for maintainability
and upgradability to have PHP interpreters only as versioned packages.
Right now in th and th-ready we have PHP 5.2 to 5.5 as phpXY-* sets.
php53 contains appropriate triggers for uprade from old php-5.3-*.

Rationale for the change is that PHP upgrades are often problematic,
as software requires certain versions, and because of that we'd still
had to create versioned packages, creating needless work for admins
to bump back and forth from unversioned to versioned packages.
Making the switch now avoids that work and leaves the decision
what PHP flavour to choose solely to the user.

-- 
Jan R?korajski                                 | PLD/Linux
SysAdm                                         | http://www.pld-linux.org/
baggins<at>mimuw.edu.pl
baggins<at>pld-linux.org


From glen at delfi.ee  Mon Jun 16 11:46:06 2014
From: glen at delfi.ee (=?UTF-8?B?RWxhbiBSdXVzYW3DpGU=?=)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:46:06 +0300
Subject: [ANN] PHP changes in Th
In-Reply-To: <20140612182736.GB1318@home.lan>
References: <20140612182736.GB1318@home.lan>
Message-ID: <539EBCDE.4080509@delfi.ee>

the testing packages are in th-ready repository (not in main yet)

To do the upgrade, you should run poldek -u php53-common or poldek -u 
php55-common.

problems can be reported directly to me or #pld on irc

On 12.06.2014 21:27, Jan R?korajski wrote:
> Hi,
> After a lot of time and work from Elan Ruusam?e, we have new PHP
> package sets in Th.  We decided it will be the best for maintainability
> and upgradability to have PHP interpreters only as versioned packages.
> Right now in th and th-ready we have PHP 5.2 to 5.5 as phpXY-* sets.
> php53 contains appropriate triggers for uprade from old php-5.3-*.
>
> Rationale for the change is that PHP upgrades are often problematic,
> as software requires certain versions, and because of that we'd still
> had to create versioned packages, creating needless work for admins
> to bump back and forth from unversioned to versioned packages.
> Making the switch now avoids that work and leaves the decision
> what PHP flavour to choose solely to the user.


-- 
glen



From baggins at pld-linux.org  Sun Jun 22 22:54:32 2014
From: baggins at pld-linux.org (Jan =?utf-8?Q?R=C4=99korajski?=)
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 22:54:32 +0200
Subject: [ANN] PHP changes in Th
In-Reply-To: <20140612182736.GB1318@home.lan>
References: <20140612182736.GB1318@home.lan>
Message-ID: <20140622205432.GA30365@tachikoma.lan>

New php packages have benn moved to main Th ftp repository.

On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Jan R?korajski wrote:

> Hi,
> After a lot of time and work from Elan Ruusam?e, we have new PHP
> package sets in Th.  We decided it will be the best for maintainability
> and upgradability to have PHP interpreters only as versioned packages.
> Right now in th and th-ready we have PHP 5.2 to 5.5 as phpXY-* sets.
> php53 contains appropriate triggers for uprade from old php-5.3-*.
> 
> Rationale for the change is that PHP upgrades are often problematic,
> as software requires certain versions, and because of that we'd still
> had to create versioned packages, creating needless work for admins
> to bump back and forth from unversioned to versioned packages.
> Making the switch now avoids that work and leaves the decision
> what PHP flavour to choose solely to the user.

-- 
Jan R?korajski                                 | PLD/Linux
SysAdm                                         | http://www.pld-linux.org/
baggins<at>mimuw.edu.pl
baggins<at>pld-linux.org