[GRLUG] PHP & CentOS

[Greg Folkert]

Yes, typically in later revisions of the Major versions, like 4.(7|8|9)
and with 5.10 (and apparently 5.8 and 5.9 for some packages) are putting
newer version in place side by side. Though with PHP 5.1.6 and 5.3.3 are
compiled against the same version of Apache for the magic numbers to
work. 

It is simultaneously a wonderful and a terrible thing to commit to a
nearly 10 year support cycle for a Linux distribution. That means
somethings like 5.0.X MySQL will be supported by RedHat/CentOS until at
least 2017... and as 5.1.x just went off official support from
MySQL-AB/Oracle, that tells you a lot.

6.5 currently doesn't appear to have any duality about it yet... but I'm
sure it will be coming.

On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 22:26 -0500, Justin Denick wrote:
> 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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