[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#679555: mediawiki: Update to 1.19 needs php-apc

Uwe Steinmann uwe at steinmann.cx
Sat Jun 30 19:14:59 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 03:40:44PM +0200, Platonides wrote:
> On 30/06/12 14:45, Uwe Steinmann wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:23:44AM +0200, Platonides wrote:
> >> MediaWiki doesn't require APC. Did the configuration of the wiki
> >> being updated have a parameter set to "use APC"? (usually with
> >> CACHE_ACCEL)
> > Now that you mentioned it, I checked the configuration and it 
> > contains a line $wgMainCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL;
> > 
> > I didn't add it and mediawiki definitely run when it was still at
> > 1.15. So either it didn't matter before or the update to 1.19 has
> > added that line.
> > 
> > Uwe
> 
> The update doesn't modify your LocalSettings.php (much less to a
> config that will break the update!).
> Looking at the code, in 1.15 a setting of CACHE_ACCEL was silently
> ignored if there was no accelerator cache available.
> Since the r83140 rewrite (available on mediawiki 1.18), it throws an
> exception on such case (it is, after all, a conflictive configuration).
That explains it at least. The question remains if the previous
version 1.15 in Debian did have $wgMainCacheType set by default.
If not, I must have set that some time, though I'm not aware of it.
If it was set in 1.15 already, it should be handled by the update
to 1.19.

  Uwe

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