You can have more than one
Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote:
> > On 02/01/2014 14:46, Tanstaafl wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I have a VM running in the cloud that has an old web/php app (10+ years
> >> old, believe it or not), that still runs fine on apache 2.2.25, but I
> >> pinned php to 5.3 some time ago.
> >>
> >> Does anyone see any big potential gotchas (major changes) with php 5.4,
> >> or even 5.5, if I were to upgrade it?
>
> > Impossible to say without seeing your php code. Potentially there are
> > many changes.
> >
> > You'd be better off doing the heavy lifting yourself first:
> >
> > 1. read all the changelogs
> > 2. run it in a staging vm with php5.5 and see what happens
>
> Actually, I was just thinking of doing #2 on the dev server (no dev
> going on, but I had this set up some time ago when we moved the
> production server to linode, so now at least I can test things without
> breaking the production system), and if it breaks, just downgrade back
> to 5.3...
>
> That assumes, of course...
>
> Is php difficult to downgrade after an upgrade?
You can have more than one version of php at a time, now. See the
portage news items for details. You will need PHP_TARGETS variable to
decide which ones you want to work with.
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