How to build depreated ports

[Paul Schmehl]

--On January 2, 2019 at 3:08:04 PM -0600 Paul Schmehl 
<pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:

> I have a server that requires php56. I cannot update to php7, because a
> critical app is not ready yet.
>
> How can I upgrade ports without upgrading all the php ports to 7?
>
> I tried DISABLE_SECURITY_CHECK=yes in /etc/make.conf (and several others)
> but that didn't work.
>
> Is there a way to ignore all php ports in portmaster so it will build
> everything but those?

Following up on my own post, I ran pkg info php56* and it returned no match.
But, I run this and they're there.
 # pkg info | grep php
mod_php56-5.6.38               PHP Scripting Language
php56-5.6.39                   PHP Scripting Language
php56-bz2-5.6.39               The bz2 shared extension for php
php56-ctype-5.6.39             The ctype shared extension for php
php56-curl-5.6.39              The curl shared extension for php
php56-dom-5.6.39               The dom shared extension for php
php56-extensions-1.0           "meta-port" to install PHP extensions
php56-fileinfo-5.6.39          The fileinfo shared extension for php
php56-filter-5.6.39            The filter shared extension for php
php56-ftp-5.6.39               The ftp shared extension for php
php56-gd-5.6.39                The gd shared extension for php
php56-gettext-5.6.39           The gettext shared extension for php
php56-hash-5.6.39              The hash shared extension for php
php56-iconv-5.6.39             The iconv shared extension for php
php56-json-5.6.39              The json shared extension for php
php56-mbstring-5.6.39          The mbstring shared extension for php
php56-mcrypt-5.6.39            The mcrypt shared extension for php
php56-mysql-5.6.39             The mysql shared extension for php
php56-mysqli-5.6.39            The mysqli shared extension for php
php56-opcache-5.6.39           The opcache shared extension for php
php56-openssl-5.6.39           The openssl shared extension for php
php56-pdo-5.6.39               The pdo shared extension for php
php56-pdo_mysql-5.6.39         The pdo_mysql shared extension for php
php56-pdo_odbc-5.6.39          The pdo_odbc shared extension for php
php56-pdo_sqlite-5.6.39        The pdo_sqlite shared extension for php
php56-phar-5.6.39              The phar shared extension for php
php56-posix-5.6.39             The posix shared extension for php
php56-readline-5.6.39          The readline shared extension for php
php56-session-5.6.39           The session shared extension for php
php56-simplexml-5.6.39         The simplexml shared extension for php
php56-sockets-5.6.39           The sockets shared extension for php
php56-sqlite3-5.6.39           The sqlite3 shared extension for php
php56-tidy-5.6.39              The tidy shared extension for php
php56-tokenizer-5.6.39         The tokenizer shared extension for php
php56-xml-5.6.39               The xml shared extension for php
php56-xmlreader-5.6.39         The xmlreader shared extension for php
php56-xmlrpc-5.6.39            The xmlrpc shared extension for php
php56-xmlwriter-5.6.39         The xmlwriter shared extension for php
php56-zip-5.6.39               The zip shared extension for php
php56-zlib-5.6.39              The zlib shared extension for php

When I run portmaster -adx php56*, it returns no match.

It appears that pkg isn't aware of the installed ports, yet it is. I am 
confused.

Paul Schmehl, Retired
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