Re: pkg_add message

J Doe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Stuart,

On 6/8/26 05:23, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2026-06-07, J Doe <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I ran a package update today on a server I recently upgraded to OpenBSD 7.9.
>>
>>       $ doas pkg_add -uvi
>>
>> This particular server had PHP 8.4.x installed on it.  In some of the
>> update output I saw:
>>
>>       Skipping php-8.5.5 (update candidate for php-8.4.22)
>>           php-8.4.22 pkgpaths: lang/php/8.4,-main
>>           php-8.5.5 pkgpaths: lang/php/8.5,-main
>>
>> I was wondering:
>>
>> ** Does this mean that there will be no more updates to PHP-8.4.x and
>> that the next upgrade candidate is to php-8.5 ?
> No. PHP is provided via multiple pkgpaths (in 7.9 that's lamg/php/8.2,
> lang/php/8.3, lang/php/8.4, lang/php/8.5); updates are only considered
> if the pkgpath of the update matches that of the version installed.
>
> In -current, lang/php/8.2 has been dropped, and there's an annotation
> in 8.3 so that it's considered a candidate for replacing 8.2.
>
>> ** Does this mean that to move to PHP 8.5.x I should explicitly install
>> it via: pkg_add ?
> Yes. (The different branches can be installed alongside each other; for
> example if you have some web application that requires an older version,
> but need a newer version for others. More information about this in the
> pkg-readme file).


Ok, thanks for the clarification!

- J
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