Old PHP 7.4

shimitar · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2023 12:32 pm Post subject: Old PHP 7.4

I have a server where i need to rebuild php 7.4. It's now out of portage...
how do i do it?

can i get the ebuild somewhere and use it? i don't want to install php from sources by hand...
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Banana · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1393 Location: Germany

maybe someone has the distfile, but I suspect you will get problems since the package itself does need dependencies which could by also gone.
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Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21644

Typically, you would retrieve the ebuild from the Portage git history and place it in an overlay. You may also need to retrieve supporting files from the files directory, supporting eclasses from the eclass directory, or the upstream distfiles if those are no longer cached and not on the mirrors.

Why are you trying to rebuild such an old php? There may be a better option to solve your underlying problem.

shimitar · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2023 3:08 pm Post subject:

i solved by fixing the old software and moving to php 8. I tought would be more difficult!
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