[CentOS] Cacti rpm for el5.6 with php53

Wed Apr 27 08:00:14 UTC 2011
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:09:36PM -0400, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: On Behalf Of Pasi Kärkkäinen
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:13
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 04:34:53PM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> > > Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Does someone know if there's a cacti rpm available
> > > > that works (=installs and doesn't conflict) when "php53" rpm
> > > > is installed, instead of the older "php" rpm ?
> > > >
> > > > cacti rpms from rpmforge/dag have these requirements:
> > > > php
> > > > php-mysql
> > > > php-snmp
> > > >
> 
> 
> > Hey,
> > 
> > Yep, I know I can create my own version of cacti,
> > but I was trying to avoid exactly that :)
> > 
> > Thanks for the heads up about rpmforge mailing list,
> > I wasn't aware of it.
> > 
> > -- Pasi
> > 
> 
> Not being a PHP developer, I was under the impression that many/most of these packages were interpreted scripts which probably would work fine under php53 vs. the php installed by default.
> I have been wondering from afar about this thread and the discussions over in the EPEL list, if someone could create a meta rpm that required php53 and provided php (and similar for php-mysql & php-snmp) and have the system continue to work.  This is of course under the assumptions of:
> a. the packages are interpreted scripts
> b. the syntax has only added, and not changed or removed functionality since the stock php. 
> 
> Is this a not_bright idea in the php package world?
> 

That should work, yes.
"php53-php" perhaps..

-- Pasi