CentOS - Apr 2011 - php53 and mcrypt

More PHP fun!

I can see in the spec files that php-mcrypt support was removed by Redhat.  I
tried to find out why but I don't have sufficient access to redhat bugzilla.
I am wondering if it is actually necessary as I have also run across a post or
two that indicates applications that rely on mcrypt still work with the new
php53.

Perhaps mcrypt was superceded by another module or PHP core code?

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Am 15.04.2011 13:32, schrieb Geoff Galitz:
> More PHP fun!
> I can see in the spec files that php-mcrypt support was removed by
> Redhat. I tried to find out why but I don't have sufficient access to
> redhat bugzilla. I am wondering if it is actually necessary as I have
> also run across a post or two that indicates applications that rely on
> mcrypt still work with the new php53.
> Perhaps mcrypt was superceded by another module or PHP core code?
Yeah, I had the same problem with missing php_mcrypt. ;)
I did a full rebuild of php53 with patched spec so that it produces 
php53_mcrypt but that is not very elegant.
The more elegant way to do it is to make an rpm for only the missing 
modules like EPEL's "php-extras".
So I'm interested in this, too.

Rainer