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Month: March 2012

  • Heads up: OBS SLES 11 PHP stuff migrates to SP2! – server:php:applications/SLE11 repository

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    OBS server:php:applications/SLE11 repository now builds against SLES 11 SP2 – some packages fail to build because of multiple providers.

  • PHP goes git

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    Today the main PHP development branch has moved to the git version control system. In the past, PHP has been developed on cvs and svn. The move to git is very common Bodybuilding toepassingen these days. Git is, for example, the version control system used by the linux kernel developers and the Horde Application Framework.…

  • php5.3 packages in SLES 11 SP2

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    SLES 11 SP2 ships php5.3 binaries but the default package php5 still installs php5.2 which already has reached upstream end of life and should be considered unsupported by any means. Recent versions of phpunit and other developer tools won’t provide all features on php5.2 any more. You must use apache2-mod_php53, php53, php53-mysql and so on…

  • Installing Horde 4 pear packages to a custom pear location (SUSE)

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    When installing horde to a custom pear location, you need to run the pear of your custom location, not the system pear with the custom location’s config. So the steps would be: 1  mkdir /srv/horde 2  pear config-create /srv/horde/ /srv/horde/pear.conf 3  pear -c /srv/horde/pear.conf install PEAR as the install docs say but then: 4 /srv/horde/pear/pear…