Stuart Herbert On PHP

Creating PHP 5.[34] Packages On Debian / Ubuntu?

Posted by Stuart Herbert on July 31st, 2011 in Toolbox.

I was just wondering if anyone has published instructions on how to take the latest PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 source tarballs, and turn them into drop-in packages for Debian and Ubuntu, a la the DotDeb or Damz’s packages?

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3 Comments

Ferenc Kovacs says:
July 31st, 2011 at 9:11 am
you can check out what bjori did this for 5.3, he forked the ubuntu packaging infrastructure and created vani

http://bjori.blogspot.com/2011/04/up2date-php53-packages-for-ubuntu.html
https://github.com/bjori/php5-vanilla-ubuntu

you can also fetch the src packages from those repos(debian/ubuntu, dotdeb, etc.) and check out the debian specific files or simply replace the source modify the debian/control and rebuild the package.

other sources:
http://wiki.debian.org/PHP
http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft-php/html/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide

Tyrael
Ferenc Kovacs says:
July 31st, 2011 at 9:15 am
* and created vanilla(throwing out the unnecessary/plain dumb patches) php packages keeping the debian directory and config file structure.

Tyrael
lehigh valley web design says:
August 1st, 2011 at 3:46 am
Thanks Ferenc Kovacs for the link. Also thanks Stuart Herbert for the great post. Have you any trusted source of PHP 5.4?