NYCPHP Meetup

[Tim Gales]

Michael B Allen wrote:
> On 10/10/07, Cliff Hirsch <cliff at pinestream.com> wrote:
>   
>> Switch to Fedora 7 or Ubuntu 7.0.4
>> Have them do it (they quoted 1-3 hours)
>> Their last suggestion, which they discourage — do it myself
>>
>>  What do you suggest? The geek in me wants to take on the challenge. But the
>> businessman in me knows there's only so many hours in the day. Switching OS
>> seem easy, but I have another server elsewhere that uses rhel4 and would
>> like to maintain some consistency. Thoughts?
>>     
>
> Hi Cliff,
>
> Once you install something from source, you bypass the automated
> update capability of your distro. That package and all of it's
> dependencies suddenly become much less predictable. For these reasons
> I almost never build anything from source. And when I do, I use
> rpmbuild to build from .src.rpm (on RPM based systems anyway).
>
>   
[snip]

If you want to 'roll your own' with rpmbuild,
have a lok at this:
http://www.jasonlitka.com/2006/11/30/upgrading-php-520-rhel-centos/

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