We were using the CentOS 5 testing repo on dev.centos.org to update our webservers' PHP to 5.2. However, we've just tried building a new machine lately and found that the repo seems to be empty. Is this a temporary fault, or has it gone away now that CentOS 6 is out? If it has gone away, where can I grab PHP 5.2 packages from? Thanks. -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd (04) 460-2531 : (021) 295-1923 www.knossos.net.nz -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120314/89aaa64e/attachment-0004.sig>
On 03/13/2012 07:58 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote:> We were using the CentOS 5 testing repo on dev.centos.org to update our > webservers' PHP to 5.2. However, we've just tried building a new > machine lately and found that the repo seems to be empty. Is this a > temporary fault, or has it gone away now that CentOS 6 is out? > > If it has gone away, where can I grab PHP 5.2 packages from? >Those php-5.2.x rpms were unmaintained and full of security issues, so they were removed. You likely do not want any of the RPMs that were there, though I do have some of them on our build server. I would HIGHLY recommend that you either use the 5.1.6 security patched c5 main tree php ... OR ... use the php53 from c5. If you absolutely HAVE to have 5.2.x, I would recommend these: http://rpms.famillecollet.com/ (he has a 5.2.17 version, the latest 5.2.x version) I am pretty sure that they (php.net) are not releasing security updates for the 5.2.x series any more. Therefore, your best bet is to use either the 5.1.6 version from c5 (Red Hat backports security updates to this, so from a security standpoint it is better than 5.2.17) ... OR ... use the php53 from c5. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120313/095ccefd/attachment-0004.sig>
Am 14.03.2012 02:46, schrieb Johnny Hughes:> > If you absolutely HAVE to have 5.2.x, I would recommend these: > > http://rpms.famillecollet.com/ > > (he has a 5.2.17 version, the latest 5.2.x version) > > I am pretty sure that they (php.net) are not releasing security updates > for the 5.2.x series any more. > > Therefore, your best bet is to use either the 5.1.6 version from c5 (Red > Hat backports security updates to this, so from a security standpoint it > is better than 5.2.17) ... OR ... use the php53 from c5.Unfortunately it seems that PHP code written for 5.2 won't necessarily run on either 5.1 or 5.3. I'm not a PHP expert myself but my PHP-savvy colleagues and customers unanimously tell me so. So what's a poor web server admin to do? I am doomed to keep around one webserver with PHP 5.1, one with PHP 5.2 and one with PHP 5.3, only hoping one of them will have been deserted by the time PHP 5.4 is released.