Hello On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 06:33:34AM +0300, Delian Krustev wrote: > On Monday 10 October 2005 22:38, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > Hello > > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:01:28PM +0300, Delian Krustev wrote: > > > On Monday 10 October 2005 21:43, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:22:29PM +0300, Delian Krustev wrote: > > > > > Package: horde3 > > > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > > > > > AFAIK horde3 should run just fine when only php5 is installed. > > > > > The package should probably have a dependency similar to: > > > > > > > > > > phpapi-20020918 | phpapi-20041030 > > > > > > > > > > The later api is probably not fully compatible with the > > > > > former(otherwise it should have been provided by the php5 packages). > > > > > You might need to contact the php5 maintainers to figure out the > > > > > correct requirement. > > > > > > > > > > imp4, and probably the other packages from the horde suit, also have > > > > > hardcoded php4 depndencies - e.g. php4-imap. > > > > > > > > As far as I have understood packages should not depend directly on > > > > these packages. Only packages that provide a php module should > > > > do that. > > > > > > horde3 has a dependency to phpapi-20020918 anyway. If you are correct > > > here it should be removed. > > > > Hmm, yes probably. I'll check that out. > > > > > > So I do not think this is a good solution, or do you have some other > > > > information on what the current policy is? > > > > > > Unfortunately no. I've taken a quick look at the packages/bugs but was > > > unable to figure this out. That's why I've written you should probably > > > contact the php maintainers. > > > > Ok. > > > > > > I think it is pretty good to depend on php4 and php5 directly as > > > > it has been seen that it is not trivial to switch. You will most > > > > certainly see a number of problems when switching. That is what > > > > my experience is anyway. :) > > > > > > Don't know here also. May be you'll face some troubles if you have e.g. > > > heavily modified configs, or apps that depend on functions/flags/config > > > options/etc. that have changed in php5. > > > I'm planning the upgrade to php5, so I'll probably find it out anyway ;) > > > On the other side I've installed several new system with php5 only. > > > > In order to test (yes I'm interested if it actually work) it, you can > > create a dummy package that provide what horde3 depend on (or somply force > > it in). > > > > I got some bugreports about different issues, that may have been fixed by > > now. > > I've tested with a dummy package which: > > Provides: php4, php4-domxml, php4-imap, phpapi-20020918 > > and installed just horde3 and imp4. A bugreport might be fired against > php-mail-mime to not depend on php4. Also some other packages do depend > on php4-pear, which is a transitional pkg at this time.
I was not aware that it has been a transitional package. Interesting. > The installation went fine and I was able to run horde using mysql5 backend > and imp and authenticating against a remote IMAP server. The only error I got > was: > [Tue Oct 11 06:05:05 2005] [error] [client ::1] PHP Fatal error: Only > variables can be passed by reference in /usr/share/horde3/imp/mailbox.php on > line 553, referer: > http://localhost/horde3/services/portal/sidebar.php?Horde=d8bf4e67adcff2d84d8ae6d3ef88e995 > > I've not payed too much attention to configuration though, and might have > broken something there. Also I was unable to find php4-domxml replacement and > gave it a go w/o it. Not sure whether it's needed anymore(or included > somewhere in php5 packages). This is a problem because php4 and php5 are different and I actually think that there are some bugs about this already. > Anyway, the result of the test is that it is runnable within this > environment, > and your should probably go ahead and change the dependencies. Not until this error message is gone. Otherwise I would be swamped with bugreports and I do not really have time for that. :) > I haven't checked the horde/imp mls for anything on the topic, just the > install instructions. A quick search on the archives, or a talk with > Chuck/Jan(form horde team) should show you whether there could be any issues. Ok, thanks. Regards, // Ola > Cheers, > Delian > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
