Craig White wrote: > I have a client with a server on CentOS-4 and I'm looking to upgrade to > latest horde/imp/etc. > > clearly php 4.3.9-xx is not up to the task but I see that upgrades for > php & mysql are in CentOS-Plus > > I see that CentOS-4 projects to get security updates until 3/2012 which > probably is the usefulness of the hardware itself. > > So my questions... > > - Will CentOS-Plus maintain the php/mysql packages until then? > Yes ... the RHWAS will be supported until then and we will use whatever is in there in plus (except that mysql is a bit newer ... whatever is the latest mysql enterprise release). > - The upgrade to mysql-5...do I have to nuke the db and reload from > backup or is there a possibility that the upgrade and subsequent restart > of mysql will update the database stuff itself (of course I'm gonna do a > complete dump of mysql data before attempting)? There is a section to upgrade and it mostly works OK: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/upgrading-from-4-1.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080717/e38a09fc/attachment-0005.sig>