[CentOS] PHP 5.3: IUS vs CentOS repos

Michael Simpson mikie.simpson at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 10:18:09 UTC 2011


On 19 August 2011 06:22, John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:54:56PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>> install the IUS package. Is there any reason to avoid IUS and stay with the
>> CentOS package?
>
> No, not really.
>
> TUV broke php53 and it won't be fixed in any useful timeframe; IUS'
> packages are sane, well maintained and used by Rackspace for their own
> customers.
>
> I wouldn't use the TUV php53 for any reason the way things stand.
>

+1
especially if you need mcrypt
we have switched production servers to ius after having fought with
the native offering

mike



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