[GRLUG] PHP & CentOS

[Justin Denick]

Right on. Time is expensive & a good package manager rocks! Timtowtdi

Incidentally, does centos do slotted installs for system libs such as php, Python, perl, et.al?

-j

> On Jan 22, 2014, at 10:10 PM, "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 22 Jan 2014, Justin Denick wrote:
>> 
>> My gentoo senses tell me you should be able to compile php from source.
>> I've never used centos though so that may not be an awesome idea without
>> a good backup-- unless you're gutsy and you're not doing anything till
>> morning.
> Interesting option, .. but won't happen here <g>! Packages are my rule.
> Building a system from scratch takes way too much time, ..
> 
> The new OS was not to upgrade PHP, rather I was concerned that the upgrade
> [update as Greg describes the process] did NOT update PHP.
> 
> Digesting Gregs info now, .. the system in use does not have any fancy
> modules, and the DB access is via DBTCP so that, in itself, should not be
> affected by the upgrade.
> 
>    Thanks!
> 
>    Lee
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