Re: install default or latest version of php with pkg

Moin Rahman <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:45:47 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
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> On Oct 14, 2025, at 18:36, Andriy Gapon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> I am writing a recipe to configure a system for a particular purpose.
> I need to install some version of PHP, doesn't matter much which, but it should be a recent one.  E.g., the latest available in ports or the default version.
> I do not want to hardcode any version / prefix like, say, "php83" (because it may be obsolete or unavailable in a few years).
> 
> How could this be achieved with pkg?
> 
> -- 
> Andriy Gapon
> 
> 

I do not know what actually you are trying to do or if I have understood
you correctly. But let's say if I need dokuwiki and I do not want to add
specific version I just do `pkg install www/dokuwiki` which will find
out the required php version suffix and install all the php requirements.
But if you need are using this for a custom application which is not in
the tree and you need to install specific php versions for those then I
believe you are out of options.

Kind regards,
Moin

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