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Month: April 2025

  • I want to run horde/components on new PHP

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    Ralf
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    If you want to run horde-components on a version of PHP which is not yet reflected in packagist.org released versions: me@mine:~/horde/components$ composer config minimum-stability devme@mine:~/horde/components$ composer install –ignore-platform-reqs No composer.lock file present. Updating dependencies to latest instead of installing from lock file. See https://getcomposer.org/install for more information.Loading composer repositories with package informationUpdating dependenciesLock file operations:…

  • Privilege Separation: Two github logins on the same Linux or WSL

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    Ralf
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    Scenario: You run a linux or wsl-equipped windows development machine where you do 90% of work for organization A using github.com and 10% for “other” and you strictly must not use the same github account. Both types of work require multiple repos so handling access per-repo is tedious. Scenario B: Privilege separation You have an…