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Posted by Oliver Grδtz on 03/11/07 14:59
JM schrieb:
> Scientific linux is based Red Hat Enterprise Linux so I took a look
> there: same thing, but it mentioned that bugfixes were backported.
> What exactly does this mean ? Does it mean that all/some of the changes
> (bugfixes, ...) since the appearance of version 4.3.9 are applied to
> your installation but that the version number of your server doesn't
> change. Is there any means to know how up to date you version of php is
> ? Does my 'backported' 4.3.9 equals version 4.4.6 of 4.4.4 or ...
The version is 4.3.9. Backporting bugfixes means that they only apply
fixes for severe problems to your version. If they had also applied new
features, they would have increased the version number according to
"official PHP". Stable distros do so to keep a reliable set of
functionality for a longer time. With PHP Versions, functionality
changes, especially with 4.4.0. Updating to this would force all users
of that version of this Linux distro to check their PHP applications for
compatibility. This is unwanted in stable ditros.
If you need a newer version of PHP, then you have to leave the official
repositories. For apt you can use the DotDeb.org packages of PHP, they
are always very up to date.
OLLi
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