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. If you just are looking for newer versions offering newer features, perhaps the centosplus repo would be enough for you? Ray