[CentOS-devel] Forum Thread -- Relating to the CentOS 5 Testing Repository

[Paulo Martinez]

Am 26.01.2010 um 08:53 schrieb Christoph Maser:

> Am Montag, den 25.01.2010, 23:33 +0100 schrieb Justin Albstmeijer:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I hoped to use php-5.2 while keeping close to the centos packages (no
>> external repositories).
>> So I tried the packages from
>> http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/i386/RPMS/ .
>> These packages seem to be compiled without mime-magic support
>> (--without-mime-magic).
>> The previous stable php-5.1.6 packages had this mime-magic support  
>> enabled.
>> Any reason for this change? is there an add-on rpm packages  
>> supplying this
>> support?
>>
>
> The reason is upstream did do that, these packages are just a  
> rebuild of
> the RHWAS php packages.

 From changelog:

* Wed Mar 21 2007 Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> 5.2.1-4
- drop mime_magic extension (deprecated by php-pecl-Fileinfo)

Cheers

PM