Re: Maia on centos 8

Ah. I wasn't aware you had created another fork. Thanks!

On 3/29/20 11:31 AM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
> While the goals and priorities of technion differ from ours, they are
> welcome to incorporate any of the fixes from our fork.
>
> Jake
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:26 AM Janky Jay, III <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Jake,
>
>         This is great news! Have you thought about pushing the code
>     changes to technion's Github repo? I'm sure Jason would be happy
>     to review the changes and accept them into his master branch.
>
>     On 3/28/20 10:53 AM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>>     The php fixes for 7.2 turned out to be not that extensive or
>>     complicated.
>>
>>     I had to do to a few workarounds, but I've moved my maia
>>     instances over the new centos 8 installs, and so far everything
>>     is working as advertised. The new installs seem to be more
>>     responsive on the web interface, perhaps due to the use of
>>     php-mysqlnd, and the faster code of php 7 in general.
>>
>>     Remaining issues -
>>     Had to revert from smarty 3 to Smarty 2.
>>     Pear failed to install htmlpurifier, so that was installed
>>     separately.
>>     Clamd dies when run from systemd, but runs fine when run from
>>     rc.local (or manually)
>>     selinux is in permissive mode. Need to come up with selinux
>>     policies to allow maia to run
>>
>>     https://github.com/einheit/maia_mailguard_1.04a
>>
>>     jake
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:30 PM Robert LeBlanc
>>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>         So far that looks like just deprecated syntax warnings and
>>         notices, but nothing that necessarily breaks functionality. 
>>         I’d expect that with older code that hasn’t been updated for
>>         PHP 7—it may still work (you did get to “Success!”), but
>>         it’ll generate a lot of complaints in the logs unless you
>>         change the log threshold to ignore warnings and notices.
>>
>>         According to its “official” changelog, MDB2 was last updated
>>         in 2012 (v 2.5.0b5), so its maintainers are clearly not going
>>         to update it for PHP 7.
>>
>>         That said, there’s a GitHub version that seems to be
>>         maintained (as of 12 months ago) with PHP 7 fixes:
>>
>>         https://github.com/pear/MDB2
>>
>>
>>>         On Mar 26, 2020, at 11:53 AM, jjs - mainphrame
>>>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Simple test - 
>>>
>>>         OK, I'm going back to basics here with a simple test,
>>>         comparing Centos 7 & php-5.4.16 with Centos 8 & php-7.2.11
>>>
>>>         They both have the same pear MDB2 modules installed. A
>>>         simple DB connection test was run on both:
>>>
>>>         <?php
>>>         require_once 'MDB2.php';
>>>
>>>         $dsn = 'mysqli://test:test@dbserv/test';
>>>         $options = array(
>>>             'debug' => 2,
>>>             'result_buffering' => false,
>>>         );
>>>
>>>         $mdb2 =& MDB2:: connect($dsn, $options);
>>>         if (PEAR::isError($mdb2)) {
>>>             die($mdb2->getMessage());
>>>         } else {
>>>             echo "Success!\n";
>>>         }
>>>
>>>         $mdb2->disconnect();
>>>         ?>
>>>
>>>         On Centos 7, it simply returns "Success!" 
>>>         But on Centos 8 it returns this:
>>>
>>>         PHP Warning:  count(): Parameter must be an array or an
>>>         object that implements Countable in /usr/share/pear/MDB2.php
>>>         on line 826
>>>
>>>         Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object
>>>         that implements Countable in /usr/share/pear/MDB2.php on
>>>         line 826
>>>         PHP Notice:  Only variables should be assigned by reference
>>>         in /root/dbtest.php on line 10
>>>
>>>         Notice: Only variables should be assigned by reference in
>>>         /root/dbtest.php on line 10
>>>         Success!
>>>
>>>         Jake
>>>
>>>
>>>         On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:46 AM jjs - mainphrame
>>>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>             Hi folks,
>>>
>>>             maia works well for me on centos 7, but not on centos 8,
>>>             with php-7.2
>>>
>>>             Actually the perl part is golden, and configtest.pl
>>>             <http://configtest.pl/> works fine. But the php side of
>>>             things is broken, and configtest.php fails miserably.
>>>
>>>             It looks the diverging code bases of php, smarty, pear
>>>             and maia are the issue.
>>>
>>>             Has anybody had any success getting maia running with
>>>             php-7.2? If so, I'd be curious what tweaks you had to
>>>             make. I found that as installed, configtest.php says it
>>>             can't connect to the database, but tcpdump shows that
>>>             not a single packet gets sent to the specified db server.
>>>
>>>             If nobody has any new info, I guess I'll have to look at
>>>             the old code and try to figure out what's broken.
>>>
>>>             Jake
>>>
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