[CentOS] issues with 3rd party repos for centos
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Mon Mar 1 19:25:13 UTC 2010
At Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:54:53 -0500 (EST) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
>
> i'm reading the lowdown on 3rd party repos with respect to centos
> here:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
>
> and i have a couple questions and observations. first, the entry for
> centosplus reads:
>
> "Popular packages from this repository include: postfix with database
> support, a rebuilt kernel with additional drivers & filesystem
> support, php5 and mysql5."
>
> however, i popped over to the centosplus packages site:
>
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.4/centosplus/
>
> and checked under x86_64, but i don't see any php or mysql packages.
> am i misreading something?
CentOS 4.x comes with php4 and mysql4 and CentOS 4.x/centosplus
includes php5 (5.1.6) and mysql5 (5.0.82sp1). CentOS 5.x comes with
php5 (5.1.6) and mysql5 (5.0.77)... CentOS 4.x is still alive and well
and will be for a few more years.
"http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories" is not
version specific -- it covers all the currently supported versions.
>
> next, regarding remi collet's repo:
>
> "Has been recommended on the mailing list and forum for mysql 5.1 and
> php5.2.9."
>
> however, if you check over there (say, under x86_64):
>
> http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/5/remi/x86_64/repoview/development.languages.group.html
>
> remi appears to already be up to php 5.3.1 (and even 5.3.2 under the
> "test" link), so the centos wiki page is a bit out of date.
>
> finally, all i want is to install PHP 5.3.x (and, obviously,
> dependent packages) on a stock centos 5.4 system. is remi collet's
> repo a good choice for that? the centos wiki recommends "extreme
> caution" for that repo, which makes me nervous.
>
> more to the point, are there any serious issues involving bumping up
> php to 5.3.1 on a stock centos 5.4 system while leaving everything
> else where it is?
>
> rday
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