On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 21:13 -0800, Vikas wrote:

I needed php 5 or greater on my centos server. I enabled CentOSPlus by editing /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

(Based on http://www.jimohalloran.com/2005/08/30/php-5-for-centos-41/)

But I got php 5.0.4, on running my application I am facing some bugs. A lot of bugs have been fixed http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php after the release of 5.0.4 close to an year ago.

Is there any reason why we do not have php 5.2 in the CentOSPlus repo ?

I would be willing to work to put php5.2 in the CentOSPlus repo, any pointers on what I should do ?

Thanks for your help.

php-5.1.6-xxx will be in CentOSPlus in a couple days time ... however, we are not about latest/greatest even in CentOSPlus.

CentOS is enterprise ... rawhide is for php-5.2.x, not CentOS :)

CentOSPlus is for STABLE, enterprise quality packages. We have been testing and modifying 5.1.6-xxx in the CentOS-Testing repo for a couple months before we decided that it was stable enough for CentOSPlus.

Even then, we discussed on this list, then submitted (Thanks to Greg Swallow) upstream the below issue and waited for their take before we decided how to make it stable:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215799

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215655

Issues like this need to be fixed (and a commitment to the solution needs to be rolled into upstream products) before we will put it in CentOSPlus as something that we are going to support long term.

Thanks for your input ... we appreciate it. And keep looking where CentOS can get better, but expect us to balance new with stable for CentOS :)

Thanks, Johnny Hughes