[CentOS] Need advice on 3rd party repository

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:29:12PM -0400, Jesse Cantara wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am looking for some advice on a way to update some packages to newer 
>> releases than are available in the standard CentOS repositories. 
>> Specifically, I am trying to update apache and PHP to conform to 
>> "Scanalert"'s "Hacker Safe" website security scan, and the required 
>> versions do not exist in the CentOS repositories. I'm using CentOS 5.
>
>Are you sure there are actually issues with your versions of PHP?  The
>upstream vendor backports security fixes:
>
>  http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/
>
>Security scanning tools often have no clue of this.

You could have left off `` of this''.

Several of the security scanning companies I've dealt with seem
to be seriously lacking in clues.

Bill
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