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Just a note: Please use a meaningful branch name (not |
rfay
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Changes applied! I'll remember the tip for branching. |
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Co-authored-by: Randy Fay <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Randy Fay <[email protected]>
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Pushed some changes, please review. Thanks for holding my hand in this one |
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On my list, thanks! If you get a chance also try to fix the test failure (should be easy, hints on lint fixes in the README.md) |
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Co-authored-by: Randy Fay <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Randy Fay <[email protected]>
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| contributor [Bill Seremetis](/blog/author/bill-seremetis/) and sponsored by | ||
| [Annertech](https://www.annertech.com)._ | ||
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| DDEV comes bundled with a predefined set of tools, `terminus` being one of them. |
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| DDEV comes bundled with a predefined set of tools, `terminus` being one of them. | |
| DDEV comes bundled with a predefined set of tools, Pantheon's `terminus` being one of them. |
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| Latest releases of `terminus` are not compatible with older PHP versions, | ||
| thus there is a need to downgrade the package inside DDEV. |
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| Latest releases of `terminus` are not compatible with older PHP versions, | |
| thus there is a need to downgrade the package inside DDEV. | |
| The latest releases of `terminus` are not compatible with older PHP versions like PHP 8.1, though, | |
| so we needed to downgrade it inside DDEV's `ddev-webserver` Docker image. |
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| This guide covers how and will also explain how to use the same technique to install | ||
| custom tools too. |
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| This guide covers how and will also explain how to use the same technique to install | |
| custom tools too. | |
| This guide covers how to downgrade `terminus` and will also explain how to use the same technique to install | |
| additional custom tools. |
| here, but also [check `webimage_extra_packages` and `dbimage_extra_packages` in your | ||
| `config.yaml`for more details](https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/users/extend/customizing-images/#adding-extra-debian-packages-with-webimage_extra_packages-and-dbimage_extra_packages)). | ||
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| ## Case study:Manually downgrading Terminus |
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| ## Case study:Manually downgrading Terminus | |
| ## Case study: Manually Downgrading Terminus |
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| [Terminus](https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus/releases) dropped | ||
| support for PHP 8.1 in newer versions which we still rely on in some of our | ||
| projects. We had to downgrade the DDEV bundled version of Terminus for those | ||
| projects by using a custom Dockerfile: |
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| [Terminus](https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus/releases) dropped | |
| support for PHP 8.1 in newer versions which we still rely on in some of our | |
| projects. We had to downgrade the DDEV bundled version of Terminus for those | |
| projects by using a custom Dockerfile: | |
| [Terminus](https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus/releases) dropped | |
| support for PHP 8.1 in recent versions, but some of our | |
| projects still use PHP 8.1. We had to downgrade the DDEV-bundled version of `terminus` for those | |
| projects by using a custom Dockerfile: |
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The Issue
Blog about manually managing installed software in ddev
How This PR Solves The Issue
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Manual Testing Instructions
Automated Testing Overview
Related Issue Link(s)
ddev/ddev#7352
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