Re: pkg_add message
J Doe <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.openbsd.misc |
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| 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