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). -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
