[CentOS] PHP 5.2.5 when ?

[Mark Weaver]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:05:56 -0600
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:

> Santa Claus wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > When (some) expected rpm package for the upgrade php to version
> > 5.2.5(CentOS4) ? Who knows?
> 
> ummm ... the answer is probably never.
> 
> Red Hat offers a RHWAS ... that has a php5 for EL4.  The version of
> php in there (and in our CentOSPlus repo) is php-5.1.6 ... it might
> go higher than that, but I doubt it will go to 5.2.x.  If it does go
> there in RHWAS, it will also go there in CentOSPlus, but I would not
> hold my breath :-D
> 
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
> 

My question would be, "good god...why?" There are a ton of security
holes in php5. From experience one of the holes I'm painfully aware of
is php-cli which installs by default with the rest of php5.

Mark