[CentOS] Yum and upgrading PHP

Wed Nov 25 20:35:53 UTC 2009
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Hi Mark,

>> I tried a yum upgrade php so that I could get to either 5.2 or 5.3
>> (currently 5.1.2) and It says nothing marked for upgrade.
>> 
>> How does one upgrade individual packages versus doing a plain system
>> upgrade (like just yum upgrade)
> 
> I'm a little confused: why did you do a yum upgrade php after running yum
> upgrade; if there was a php package to upgrade in any of the mirrors or
> repositories you have allowed, it would have already been upgraded.

Well I thought a yum upgrade would get a php update if it was available, but there was nothing, so I tried a normal yum upgrade php as it would be nice to get to php 5.3.

So must be the mirror I am using doesn't have an upgraded package. 

-Jason