PHP 5.3.5, now for Squeeze

January 11, 2011 · Guillaume Plessis

I just released PHP 5.3.5 packages for Debian 6.0 (a.k.a “Squeeze”), with some changes against the Lenny’s ones :

the packaging process has been improved : dependencies were cleaned up, PHP tests are now displayed, libtool 2.2 is now supported (thanks to the Debian team for their precious work)
3 new useful extensions have been packaged : gearman, phpredis and xhprof (without its interface files)

With these new packages, Dotdeb’s support for Squeeze is still experimental, but almost complete. Some more packages could be added in a near future :

MySQL (or Percona) Server 5.5 will replace MySQL Server 5.1. More info here and here.
a Nginx backport

The installation instructions did not change : just add Dotdeb’s GnuPG key to your keyring, pick a mirror near you and add squeeze-related lines to your sources.list. For example :

deb http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all

And, of course, feel free to donate if you find Dotdeb useful.

Anthony January 11, 2011
thanks for the continued hard work Guillaume
i’m glad that we will have some php and mysql updates out the box when squeeze is released stable
i assume this is syncing to mirrors so people can also use local mirrors just changing stable to squeeze in the mirror lines?
Guillaume Plessis January 11, 2011
@Anthony : yes, the mirrors (including yours) will get the new packages too during their next rsync.
Hans Worst January 11, 2011
This is great news. I tried it when I read it, but when running apt-get update, I got this warning:
W: Conflicting distribution: http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze Release (expected squeeze but got lenny)
Installation of PHP 5.3.5, etc. went fine though. I am running a fresh Squeeze beta install.
Guillaume Plessis January 11, 2011
@Hans Worst : I’ll take a look at it
Hans Worst January 11, 2011
@Guillaume Plessis : Great thanks!
Guillaume Plessis January 11, 2011
@Hans Worst : I made a change on the repository. Does it work well now?
Hans Worst January 11, 2011
@Guillaume Plessis : Yes it is perfect now, thanks again!
Tyrael January 12, 2011
nginx \o/
thanks for your work Guillaume!
Tyrael
Daniel Hahler January 12, 2011
Thanks a lot, Guillaume!
As for nginx, I am using the following PPA which works great with Squeeze: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/development/ubuntu lucid
It’s the one officially linked at http://wiki.nginx.org/Install#Ubuntu_PPA
OverlordQ January 13, 2011
If DL the debs will they fit into sid? Tired of waiting for fpm in debian :(
Guillaume Plessis January 13, 2011
@OverlordQ : yes, they will
Laph January 14, 2011
@Guillaume: Thanks a lot for your work! I got an (quite offtopic) question: Since you somewhere wrote, you’ve 600+ Servers - do you prefer xcache or APC (or don’t you use an opcode cache at all)? I’m used to xcache, but further development seems to be slow (at best). In APC it’s possible to enable CLI Mode - which is great for Unit-Testing. Is it as stable as xcache? I never had any issues with xcache, even when running in parallel with xdebug.
Guillaume Plessis January 14, 2011
@Laph : I use APC by default on my servers (they’re a little less than 600 now, I’ve got a new job). It is stable enough, it is well maintained by the PHP Group and it will (some day) be part of the PHP core. It also have its own userland functions and many configuration options that allow a fine-grained cache control.
I only use xcache on some problematic projects (blank pages with APC, source code sharing…).
I think you can switch safely, but not without a test phase.
Nicolas Favre-Felix January 14, 2011
Thanks a lot for the phpredis packaging, Guillaume!
I’ll get on the PECL application this week-end, this has been in the queue for too long already.
Nicolas
Guillaume Plessis January 14, 2011
@Nicolas Favre-Felix : You’re welcome. I think I’ll package it for Lenny too.
Good luck with PECL. Don’t forget to update PHP_REDIS_VERSION in the next releases, according to the Git tags (the 2.0.12 tag still claims it’s 2.0.11).
Peter January 14, 2011
Hi Guillaume,
Great to see that 535 is available. I added the dotdeb repo, and ran an update and upgrade, but it did not upgrade the current 5.3.3-7 version installed. However, it did upgrade mysql!
Results were:
apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done The following packages have been kept back: libapache2-mod-php5 php-pear php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-gd php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-pspell php5-sqlite php5-suhosin 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
And the repos are: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze main non-free deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main deb http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all
Linux srv31 2.6.32-cgmemcap-smack #1 SMP Tue Dec 28 14:28:18 CET 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Any ideas where I went wrong?
All the best, P.
Guillaume Plessis January 14, 2011
@Peter : an installed package may have a dependency that prevent the php5 upgrade. Could you please use a tool such as dselect, synaptic or aptitude to find the faulty dependency?
Peter January 14, 2011
@Guillaume,
Marvellous. I forgot about aptitude.Thank-you.
~# aptitude safe-upgrade Resolving dependencies…
The following NEW packages will be installed: libicu44{a} The following packages will be upgraded: libapache2-mod-php5 php-pear php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-gd php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-pspell php5-sqlite php5-suhosin
php -v
PHP 5.3.5-0.dotdeb.1 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Jan 11 2011 09:08:22)
flo January 18, 2011
thank you for all of your work
kevin January 24, 2011
woot on nginx!
ap January 29, 2011
nginx backport would be awesome. for now, i compile it myself after new release.
also, is it possible to rsync php53.dotdeb.org for mirroring?
boss January 29, 2011
apt-get install -y php5-cli php5-mhash php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-gd php5-curl
The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-cli: Depends: php5-common (= 5.3.5-0.dotdeb.0) but it is not going to be installed php5-curl: Depends: php5-common (= 5.3.5-0.dotdeb.0) but it is not going to be installed php5-gd: Depends: php5-common (= 5.3.5-0.dotdeb.0) but it is not going to be installed php5-mcrypt: Depends: php5-common (= 5.3.5-0.dotdeb.0) but it is not going to be installed php5-mhash: Depends: phpapi-20060613 Depends: php5-common (= 5.2.17-0.dotdeb.0) but it is not going to be installed php5-mysql: Depends: php5-common (= 5.3.5-0.dotdeb.0) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages
what should I do?
Guillaume Plessis January 29, 2011
@ap : send me an email (gui at dotdeb dot org) with the source IP of your server, I’ll grant you an access to the rsync server.
@boss : uninstall php5-mhash before upgrading. This package disapeared with PHP 5.3. The hash functions are now bundled in the PHP core.
Ticky January 30, 2011
Please, please, please revive mailparse PECL module package. I was heavily using it and now reinstalled couple of my production boxes with Squeeze, to realise it’s no longer on dotdeb :( Can you please make them available again, please?
Guillaume Plessis January 30, 2011
@Ticky : the mailparse Pecl extension is not packaged anymore on Dotdeb. You can do it yourself easily by following these instructions :
/2008/09/25/how-to-package-php-extensions-by-yourself/
Paul January 31, 2011
Is php5-fpm enabled on this build? I’m having trouble with the dependencies for php5-pgsql is too old - libpq 8.3, but I would like 8.4, so I may have to compile from source.
Tricky January 31, 2011
@Guillaume: I read this guide, but I thought it would be less hassle for you to re-enable it, especially in the note mentioning removeal of mailparse and id3 you asked if anyone wants it back. So I do want :) Any chance you re-include mailparse anyway? Would donate if so as it’d save my time. Thanks
Guillaume Plessis January 31, 2011
@Paul : php5-fpm is available with the php5-fpm package, as usual. about libpq, 8.3 is the default version Squeeze packages are built against. Building against 8.4 could lead to duplicate symbols and segfaults on some configs.
Paul January 31, 2011
Thank you for the info Guillaume. segfaults, not good. =)
jugg February 3, 2011
Conflicting distribution: http://php53.dotdeb.org squeeze Release (expected squeeze but got lenny )
The problem is likely that the following file references ’lenny':
http://php53.dotdeb.org/dists/squeeze/Release
- Guillaume Plessis February 3, 2011
  @jugg : fixed. Thanks for the report.
orr February 5, 2011
Help! I’m stuck w/ the 5.2.17.. How can I upgrade it into a 5.3.5?
orr February 5, 2011
nvm, it’s ok now
Paul February 5, 2011
Hi. Is it possible to “Compile PHP with the –with-mm option and set session.save_handler=mm in php.ini.”, but set default php.ini session.save_handler=files?
Guillaume Plessis February 5, 2011
@Paul : PHP is compiled without mm support. Instead, you can :
- use /dev/shm as session.save_path
- use memcached as session storage
Paul February 5, 2011
Thank you Guillaume. I found out mm isn’t what I thought it was and made the changes that you have suggested.
Jools February 6, 2011
the repository
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all
no longer contains php 5.1.17 - it contains 5.3.5 forcing upgrade/breaking any 5.2.17 installations. I don’t see this change mentioned on the site anywhere,
Guillaume Plessis February 6, 2011
@Jools : Debian Squeeze has been released. Lenny is now “oldstable”, Squeeze is “stable”. Please update your sources.list.
Jools February 6, 2011
sorry. must have missed that! aah i see it happened today. I’ve locked my sources to lenny now. thanks - however your instructions are not updated to reflect this and refer to lenny still. Also it would be useful to have 5.2 available for squeeze - any plans for this?
Guillaume Plessis February 6, 2011
@Jools : the packages of PHP 5.2 for Lenny will work with Squeeze. I won’t release the end-of-life PHP 5.2 for teh oldstable distribution.
Snaky February 6, 2011
why is in the php.ini delivered with these packages cgi.fix_pathinfo=1 ???
wouldn´t it be better to change this?
astate February 12, 2012
apt-get install -y php5-curl
The following packages have unmet dependencies. php5-curl: Depends: phpapi-20060613+lfs Depends: php5-common (= 5.2.17-0.dotdeb.0) but 5.3.5-0.dotdeb.0 is to be installed E: Broken packages
Guillaume Plessis February 12, 2012
@astate : before any other apt-get operation, please run “apt-get update” to refresh the available packages list.

apt-get upgrade

php -v

apt-get install -y php5-cli php5-mhash php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-gd php5-curl