Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

To make it a bit easier to track which packages from the PHP Overlay will be in Portage, and which ones will not, I’ve split the overlay into two corresponding directories, called “for-portage” and “experimental” respectively. The next time you update your overlay, you’ll need to adjust your PORTDIR_OVERLAY settings accordingly.


PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/gentoo-php-overlay/for-portage /usr/local/gentoo-php-overlay/experimental"


I’ve also posted a new page on our wiki, detailing our timescales for migration from the older PHP packages to the new ones. The summary is that, for PHP 4, you have until 8th Jan 2006 to migrate; for PHP 5, you should have already migrated, because I’m removing those packages no later than Thursday this week.

The tricky thing about the retirement plans will be support from other arch teams. The PHP Herd will definitely take care of x86 and ppc (maybe amd64 too), but so far sparc is the only other arch that we know has started work on supporting the new packages.

So please, if you use the overlay on one of the other arches, please step forward and volunteer to help your arch team test and keyword the packages!