Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Our public library management software (PMB) runs on Apache/PHP/MySQL. > It requires some additional PHP modules to run correctly, namely: > > 1) php-gd > 2) php-yaz > 3) php-xslt > > I've googled and fiddled around quite a bit, and come to the following > conclusions: > > 1) php-gd can be installed from extra repos (rpmforge IIRC), so this > one's no problem. There is a php-gd already in centos-5 ... so no RPMForge RPM is necessary. > > 2) To install php-yaz, I have to install the yaz library first. To do > this, I download the FC6 SRPM for yaz from www.indexdata.dk, it builds > without any problem, and I install the resulting libyaz3 and > libyaz3-devel. Then, I can install the according PHP module with a > simple 'pecl install yaz'. I do not recommend that ... it can get overwritten on php upgrades, instead, build a php-pecl RPM. Use the SRPMS from c5 centosplus as an example ... like php-pecl-memcache-2.1.2-1.el5.centos.src.rpm or php-pecl-Fileinfo-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.src.rpm > > 3) Apparently, there's no php-xslt module around. AFAIK, the only way to > have it is to build it into PHP. So I went and downloaded the PHP SRPM > from one of the CentOS mirrors. I edited php.spec and added the > following configure option in php.spec: > > --with-xslt-sablot > > After installing a myriad of build dependencies, I launched 'rpmbuild > -bb --clean php.spec', and after a while, I got my > /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 directory chock-full with resulting PHP packages. > > I uninstalled everything I already had PHP-wise, like this: > > yum remove `rpm qa | grep php` > > Then I simply installed my resulting RPMS like this: > > rpm -ivh php-*.rpm > > I checked the PHP information page (with phpinfo()), and every module > needed by my application was there. > > Now I wonder: how will I manage security and/or bugfix updates for PHP > and its modules in the future? When simply issuing 'yum update', any > update to php will squash my rebuilt version, and PMB will become > dysfunctional. My first idea would be: see if there are available > updates, and in that case, download the according SRPM, rebuild and > reinstall the whole thing. But that sounds a bit tedious. > > Or simply put a line in /etc/yum.conf: > > exclude=php php-* Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080129/501fde43/attachment-0004.sig>