Re: pkg/50957: can't install php-pgsql when php-7 is installed

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50957; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/50957: can't install php-pgsql when php-7 is installed
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 20:29:39 +0000

 On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 10:40:00AM +0000, 6bone%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost wrote:
  >  So far I have not needed the mk.conf. The packages have recognized 
  >  previously installed versions of programs and then used them.
  >  
  >  How is the defined behavior of pkgsrc? Do I have to define such cases 
  >  manually or will alreday installed package versions be detected and used?
 
 It's supposed to detect one that's already installed from the set
 that's marked ACCEPTABLE; but each of the multiversion frameworks
 (python, ruby, php, etc.) is slightly different and maybe this isn't
 part of the php one. But looking at lang/php/phpversion.mk suggests
 that it's supposed to be... so my guess would be that something's
 wrong.
 
 oh, I see the problem: there's no _PHP_VERSION_70_INSTALLED logic,
 only 56 and 57. Unless that was deliberate (seems unlikely), it's a
 bug.
 
 That said, setting PHP_VERSION_DEFAULT the way you want it is still
 the recommended course of action, as there are other cases where
 things will not necessarily happen the way you want -- arguably those
 are bugs too but at least some are hard to prevent without
 strengthening the frameworks a lot, which is a large proposition.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost