CentOS - Feb 2012 - advice on having php 5.2.x:

Hi all,

My goal is to have PHP 5.2.x on a centos virtual machine (LXC)
Looking at the repositories:
- 6.2 has php 5.3:
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.centos.org/6.2/updates/i386/drpms/
- 5.7 has php 5.1
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.centos.org/5.7/updates/i386/RPMS/


I'll have to rebuild a source RPM in order to have what I want:
- Which base should I install for a php 5.2 VM? 6.2 or 5.7?
- Which release of CentOS had a php 5.2 source rpm that I could just 
rebuild without too much extra patching?


Thank you all.

Side note:
For legacy projects, I'll also have to have a php 4, but there, no 
problem: ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.centos.org/4.9/updates/i386/RPMS/ 
has a php 4.3.9, so, no problem.
The machines are simply development machines, on the LAN, in order to 
keep (very) old projects running if we ever have to get back on them. 
These are not for public or production use.

-- 
RMA.

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby
<mihamina at rktmb.org> wrote:
> I'll have to rebuild a source RPM in order to have what I want:
> - Which base should I install for a php 5.2 VM? 6.2 or 5.7?
> - Which release of CentOS had a php 5.2 source rpm that I could just
> rebuild without too much extra patching?
There is a PHP 5.2 RPM for CentoOS5 in the testing repo:

http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/SRPMS/

So I would go with CentOS 5.7 and use that as the base. Those RPMs
might even provide you what you need without the need to recompile
your own?

Best,
Peter