Re: devel/pear fails - but only for PHP 8.1

Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

> PHP 8.1 is what the largest number of our customers still runs and with another
> 5 months of upstream support I fail to see how we can force them to upgrade
> *now*. Or tell them "sorry, no updates, anymore".
> 
> So what would you suggest to get all packages to the latest quarterly version?
> 
> Use a separate ports tree for PHP 8.1. and checkout an older libxml release
> in that one?

Yes.

> I am still not quite sure I understand the issue. I'll search for some info from
> the PHP project in the meantime.

Why the ports tree made the update:

fixes for CVE-2024-56171, CVE-2025-24928, and CVE-2025-32414

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287391

Because not upgrading blocked some GNOME stuff (and lots of other stuff
that depends on libxml2):

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=279705

It really is dependency hell, with no clear way out.

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