<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 13, 2011, at 2:32 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 01:47:31PM -0400, Dvorkin, Asya wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am not sure if I want to use it in a production environment....<br></blockquote><br>Please trim unnecessary material from your responses. Thank you.<br><br>IUS is the community repo for RackSpace; this is the same repo and repo<br>components that they use for their own customers in their hosting<br>configurations. This repo is in use by _many_ people, not only<br>RackSpace customers but by the general EL public, including myself. <br><br>At this stage of the game I would not consider using any other source<br>for PHP kit, including the mess that is known as php53 that CentOS<br>ships as an optional package (note: problems originate upstream and not<br>with the CentOS project proper). As far as that in c5-testing... that<br>php-5.2 release should, quite frankly, be yanked as it's ridiculously<br>out of date and full of known security issues.<br><br>PHP 5.2.16 also has _known_ security issues; you are doing a disservice to<br>your client if you do not point this fact out to them and kindly tell<br>them that 5.2.17 is mandatory. Contrary to popular belief clients are<br>not always right.<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>John,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much for an excellent response. I called our developer and he agreed to go with 5.2.17.</div><div><br></div><div>I will be using IUS repo to install it..</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div>Asya</div></body></html>