how to get older version of php5-mbstring

[Pieter Donche]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Jerry wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:05:47 +0200 (CEST)
>> I updated via the ports collection php5-mbstring
>> to the latest version 5.2.9. Previously I had 5.2.8
>> Also updated php5 from 5.2.8 to 5.2.9
>> and php5-extensions from 1.2 to 1.3
>> installing php5-mbstring-5.2.9 installed it alongside
>> php5-mbstring-5.2.8: # pkg_info | grep mbstring
>> php5-mbstring-5.2.8 The mbstring shared extension for php
>> php5-mbstring-5.2.9 The mbstring shared extension for php
>> Then I deleted mbstring 5.2.8 (thinking I wouldn't need it any longer)
>> # pkg_delete php5-mbstring-5.2.8
>> But now it seems that my Drupal 6.9 continues to look for
>> php5-mbstring-5.2.8 (not looking at php5-mbstring-5.2.9)
>> How can I install php5-mbstring-5.2.8 again via the ports ??
>
> cd /usr/ports/www/drupal6
> make clean && make deinstall && make reinstall
>
> There is no need to install the older version of php5-mbstring. In
> fact, doing so might cause problems at some point.

Problem is that our drupal-6.9 was installed from a tar file, not
from freebsd ports and in some location different than where 
FreeBSD drupal6 port installs it (i think FreeBSD's place is 
/usr/local/www/drupal ?)

We had it unpacked in /usr/local/www/apache22/data/drupal.

If I install drupal6-10 from the ports, how will the affect things?
Of would it be safe to make a soft-link /usr/local/www/drupal ->
/usr/local/www/apache22/data/drupal before installing from ports?

Also since the first drupal (6.9) was not installed from ports, then
what is needed might be:
# cd /usr/ports/www/drupal6
# make install clean

is that correct?

Also, I do not understand well why a package can not handle a higher
version of php5-mbstring-5.2.9 instead of 5.2.9 since it is only a
security issue patch?