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[Hans Zaunere]

Hey everyone,

 

As it’s probably no surprise, I’m a fan of compiling from source.  The
exception, however, is MySQL, which I will use either the RPM or tarball.

 

Especially for production systems, I’ve found much better stability and
reliability (from a maintenance and system administration perspective) when
compiling from source.  Combine that with a high load environment, and
trimming the fat of unneeded extensions, etc. and source is generally the
way to go.  I will say, however, that for development – especially on
Windows – I’ll use some type of package management or pre-built packages,
like XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org <http://www.apachefriends.org/> )
which I use all the time on Windows.

 

 

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Hans Zaunere

President, Founder

 

New York PHP

http://www.nyphp.org

 

AMP Technology

Supporting Apache, MySQL and PHP

 

 

 

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From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
Behalf Of Allen Shaw
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:41 AM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] php rpm for RH 7.3?

 

Hi Leila,

Yep, I've found several sites for rpm downloads (though not yet php 4.3.11
for RH7.3), but I just wonder, how far can you trust an rpm that you find
that way?  I'm still a little green, but I think trust and integrity is the
reason I check md5sums on official php rpms from Zend; so if I'm concerned
about trust and integrity, shouldn't I be concerned about where those
unofficial rpms come from and what other people say about them?  So, I'm
just wondering if anyone's got a trusted source that they like for such
things.

Still, I admit, it seems like most people prefer building from source, right
gang?  And I'll probably end up going that way after all.

Thanks,
Allen

Leila Lappin wrote: 

 
--- Allen Shaw  <mailto:ashaw at iifwp.org> <ashaw at iifwp.org> wrote:
 
  

I'm looking for an rpm package for my RedHat 7.3 box
-- hopefully the 
latest 4.3.11 version. (Currently I'm still using
fedoralegacy's latest, 
4.1.2)
 
Could anyone point me to a source you trust for
unofficial php rpms?
 
Thanks,
Allen
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Start by using google to find out exactly what rpm you
need.  I usually use a search string like ‘what-I-need
rpm download’.  My experience finding missing rpm’s
this way has been very good. A couple of years ago
when I first upgraded from RH 7 to RH 9 there was some
dependency failures and as the result I could not use
PHP with MySQL.  It took a while for me to find the
patch and the rpm download for it but it was a good
experience and I learned a lot.   
 
Last week I finally upgraded from Redhat 9 to Fedora
Core 4, because I wanted to use PHP 5.  Now, with
Fedora upgrade, I no longer have to look for packages
everywhere.  Fedora comes with a utility (yum) that
links to specific repositories of upgrade rpm’s and
installs from those directly.  Life is getting easier
and better every day.
 
 
 
              
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