Correct way to portupgrade php5 and php5-extensions-1.1 ?

[Miroslav Lachman]

Pine Digital Security Support wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Following the most recent update of PHP5 (5.2.6_2) and subsequent 
> portaudit warnings for 5.2.6, I've been upgrading lang/php5 and 
> lang/php5-extensions-1.1 on a number of machines.
> 
> My question is, what is the best way to do this. Some options come to mind:
> 
> 1) portupgrade -fpb php5-5.2.6 php5-extensions-1.1
> 
> or
> 
> 2) portupgrade -fpb php5\*
> 
> or
> 
> 3) portupgrade -fpbR php5-5.2.6
> 
> 
> I noticed that the first option didn't update the actual binaries in 
> /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/, but it still works on the machine where I 
> tried it.
> 
> The second, I think, will always work (/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/ 
> files are all updated/recompiled), but it takes a long time. I'm 
> suspecting this way perhaps some ports will be updated/recompiled more 
> than once? (once when php5-extensions is portupgraded, and once when for 
> instance php5-session-5.2.6 is upgraded).
> 
> The last option seems the best according to the manpage, but this would 
> in my case also recompile phpmyadmin. Is that needed?
> 
> Perhaps there are also different cases when for instance there is a 
> minor version update like this one (from 5.2.6 to 5.2.6_2), and for 
> instance a 5.2.6 to 5.2.7 or even 5.2.6 to 5.3 update).
> 
> Who can shine some light on this dark matter? :-)

I uprgraded PHP for same reason with just one simple command:

portmaster php5-extensions-1.1

It did all required steps (it first upgrade libraries for core PHP, then 
php5-5.x.x, then libraries for extensions, then extensions and as last 
step php5-extensions-1.1)

(optionally you can upgrade PECL extensions by portmaster pecl-\*)

Then restart Apache and PHP 5.2.6_2 is on ;)

Miroslav Lachman