I don't see the problem here. I just tested this and it works fine. The drupal6 package only requires php 5.2 or greater.
This is out of the drupal6-date.spec file
Requires: drupal6 >= 6.0, drupal6-cck, php >= 5.2
You can get php52 or php53 from the IUS repository. Install the IUS repo from http://iuscommunity.org/ http://wiki.iuscommunity.org/Doc/ClientUsageGuide
Install the yum-plugin-replace package and follow the instructions.
ps. Somewhere there is a dozen people in a Red Hat conference room reading this list laughing their heads off. Don't give them more fuel. The CentOS team will get 5.6 out soon enough.
On 03/20/2011 11:23 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
There are significant components of the upstream 5.6 release which are stuck behind the CentOS 5.6 release process, but are now incorporated in EPEL 5 components. In particular, the "php53" package is now necessary for the "drupal6" EPEL components, due to the long out of date PHP 5.1 in the default upstream vendor's codebase.