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Alistair Prestidge
Asked: 2010-06-12 02:54:32 +0800 CST

freebsd does not recognise that php was installed via ports

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I have php 5.2.12 installed on FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE. It was installed from ports and I am trying to upgrade it to 5.3.2.

However for some reason my system is not recognising that php was installed via ports. When I run "pkg_version" the list does not include php it does however include all the extensions that I have installed.

I have even tried to do "make deinstall" on "/usr/ports/lang/php5" it told me that the port had been deinstalled but php still appears to be working correctly i.e "php -v" works

any ideas on how this port has become de attached from the ports system? and how I can get the ports system to recognise that it installed php?

EDIT: When I run "make deinstall" over and over again I always get the same answer

Deinstalling for lang/php5

I never get 

php52 not installed, skipping

which is what I am expecting after the first time I run "make deinstall"

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3 Answers

  1. If you're in lang/php5 then you're uninstalling PHP 5.3; you need to be in lang/php52 to uninstall PHP 5.2

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  2. Roughly speaking, PHP 5.3.2 was only recently introduced to the FreeBSD ports tree and in order to properly install 5.3.2, you must first update your local ports tree using csup or cvsup. Have you gone thru these steps first?

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  3. Best Answer

    I am not sure why but the answer was to rebuild all of the ports

    portupgrade -a

    after running this pkg_version now realises that php is installed.

    Fortunately this is not a production machine so this was not a problem if I get this happening on a production machine I think I will need a better answer so, if anyone has an explanation as to why portupgrade -a might have fixed my issue that would be very helpful.

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