Re: [tlug] Upgrading to PHP5 on Fedora

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Jun 19, 2006, at 19:06, Dave M G wrote:

> I must be doing something wrong (again). Where the heck are the  
> RPMs for
> PHP?

I think you will have trouble finding pre-built binaries for such an  
old distribution.  Most people have moved on.  Certainly most of the  
alpha nerds that build packages for new things.  :-)

One course you might take is to fetch the source RPMs for FC5 and see  
how lucky you are rebuilding them (rpmbuild --rebuild  
php5whatver.src.rpm) on your old installation.  (You may need to  
tweak the spec file a bit if you need the MySQL bindings because of  
the changes between 3.23 and 5.0.x.)  If you succeed, you will  
probably want to monitor the FC5 packages for security (or bugfix)  
updates so you can repeat the process.

An alternative would be to build from the source and step outside  
your package manager.  This even has advantages during your  
transition because you could build just the CGI or FastCGI version of  
PHP5 and use it alongside PHP4 in case you fear your code may stumble  
on any of the incompatibilities.  But again, since you are stepping  
out of the convenience features offered by your package manager, you  
will want to monitor for updates.

Or upgrade your distribution.  :-)