[CentOS] Re: PHP 5.2.5 when ?

Tue Jan 15 18:52:02 UTC 2008
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

Bart wrote:
> 
> 
> Scott Silva wrote:
>>
>> I can't understand why people choose an enterprise distro for it's 
>> longevity,
>> and then proceed to try and break it. It is almost like buying a brand 
>> new car
>> and then immediately replacing the engine.
>>
>>
> Well, life is not that black and white, luckily ;)
> 
> Try authenticating with PHP to MySQL using certificates. That won't work 
> with the current PHP release shipped with RHEL/CentOS. There's a bug in 
> PHP 5.1 and it's fixed in 5.2. Since this is not a security bug, but 
> just missing (of wrongly implemented) functionality, it's probably not 
> going to be back ported.
> 
> Since certificates (and PKI) are a pretty hot item these days, an 
> upgrade can be very useful.
> 
> Just an idea that upgrading is not always about having the latest and 
> greatest.. ;)

Did you file a bug that says, hey ... your php is broken like this, here 
is what it will not do ?

If so, what is the upstream bug so I can track it ... if not, why not :D

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