Re: php dependency hell

Bill Moran wrote:
You should be able to use portupgrade with the -o option to replace
mod_php4 with php4. See the man page for portupgrade for examples
(the EXAMPLES section in particular).

In my experience, this works 90%+ of the time. If this is a
production system, however, you'll do well to test on a scratch
system first.

Luckily it was reliable, as I don't have a test system. :)

portupgrade rocks.

Thanks,
Mike

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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." --Albert Einstein

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