Archive for January, 2006

Well, I’m at home right now. Took another day off due to the fact that I am ill. Oh, and it’s not the cool “nose dribbling while playing Half-Life” but rather the most detestable “spending most of the day on the toilet” one.

So amidst all of these happenings, I took the time to upgrade my web servers to reflect the recent PHP portage changes happening in Gentoo lately. It all went well, until I had to re-merge the 30 or so PEAR packages. One of them wanted to pull back the old dev-php/php-4* packages, creating a blocker.

Turns out three PEAR packages are now depreciated, according to the php managers for Gentoo.

CHTEKK: just emerge the new PEAR-PEAR, it includes XML_RPC, 
Archive_Tar and Console_Getopt PEAR packages
jakub: we should mention it in the guide
CHTEKK: yeah
mr_daemon: Okay... I have something like 30 PEAR packages... 
how could I find out which are depreciated?
CHTEKK: only those three
CHTEKK: all the others remained, and some (very few) changed category 
and are now in dev-php4/ or dev-php5/

So basically, the guide should be updated to reflect this fact. If you’re having problems, just discards PEAR-XML_RPC, PEAR-Archive_Tar and PEAR-Console_Getopt. They are all included in PEAR-PEAR.