Bug 449032

Summary:	www-apps/ampache-3.5.* needs additional dependency < dev-lang/php-5.4
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Russell Knighton <russell>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) <k_f>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	forenhampel, ian, openhs, ss23
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends on:	520792
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Description Russell Knighton 2012-12-28 12:54:43 UTC

The current 3.5.* series of ampache is not tested with php 5.4, and definitely versions greater the 5.4.3 no longer work (ampache just display a blank page).

3.6 will work (and for now, anyone that must use/insists to use php >5.4.3 will need to use the alpha release of 3.6, which can be obtained using the live ebuild found in bug #397987).

Until such time, I suggest a dependency be added to the ampache 3.5.* ebuilds that enforces a php version less than 5.4.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ian Abbott 2012-12-28 21:05:57 UTC

With php 5.4.9,ampache-3.5.4's web install.php fails with the error

Fatal error: Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed in /var/www/host/htdocs/ampache/lib/class/vauth.class.php on line 580


(where 'host' is the webapp-config -h parameter and 'ampache' is the webapp-config -d parameter).

Comment 2 Carter Young 2013-02-28 22:10:50 UTC

See Forum Post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7256816.html

I helped this person accomplish what this bug is verifying.  Through his research, he found:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8971261/php-5-4-call-time-pass-by-reference-easy-fix-available

Comment 3 Stephen Shkardoon 2013-03-01 02:50:25 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> See Forum Post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7256816.html
> 
> I helped this person accomplish what this bug is verifying.  Through his
> research, he found:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8971261/php-5-4-call-time-pass-by-
> reference-easy-fix-available

While it's an easy fix, manually patching software on the Gentoo side doesn't seem like a particularly good idea, especially given most larger projects will have many many different lines to change, and if something does break, Gentoo developers probably don't have the time to deal with it.
Better to force users to upgrade than to patch the sources on the Gentoo side, I think.

Comment 4 Róbert Čerňanský 2014-03-04 19:04:03 UTC

Fix the dependency please.  Ampache 3.5.3-r1 works fine with php-5.3.27.  It does not work with 5.5.4; it fails with the symptoms and error described in this bug.

Comment 5 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-01-08 17:17:03 UTC

Plesae re-open if issue persists in 3.8.1