On 3/1/2010 10:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
next, regarding remi collet's repo:
"Has been recommended on the mailing list and forum for mysql 5.1 and php5.2.9."
however, if you check over there (say, under x86_64):
http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/5/remi/x86_64/repoview/development....
remi appears to already be up to php 5.3.1 (and even 5.3.2 under the "test" link), so the centos wiki page is a bit out of date.
finally, all i want is to install PHP 5.3.x (and, obviously, dependent packages) on a stock centos 5.4 system. is remi collet's repo a good choice for that? the centos wiki recommends "extreme caution" for that repo, which makes me nervous.
I've run the ocsinventory-server from remi repo for a while, letting it pull in the msyql and php versions from there (and I think you also need epel enabled for additional dependencies). It hasn't broken anything obvious. I keep the repo disabled in the yum setup and explicitly enable it with enablerepo=remi on the command line when updating ocsinventory.
more to the point, are there any serious issues involving bumping up php to 5.3.1 on a stock centos 5.4 system while leaving everything else where it is?
That probably depends on what php-based apps you need to keep running. Nothing else should care - but you do have to pay attention to what other package updates might be pulled in when you do updates. I usually do an update without remi enabled first, then with, and look over the list that it plans to install before accepting it.