Posted by JM on 03/11/07 12:44

J.O. Aho wrote:
> JM wrote:
>
>> I am waiting for scientific linux to come out, which will have PHP5.1.
>> Suppose all bugfixes will be backported. And I want to use a feature
>> thta requires PHP 5.2. Is that possible or do they only backport
>> bugfixes and no added features ?
>
> I can't say what the policy is for Scientific Linux about backporting,
> but on most other distros they only backport security patches and not
> add on new features to older versions of programs. If you need a new
> feature, then it's better to upgrade to the new version.
>

Scientif linux 4 equals RHEL 4 minus somethings and plus somethings
(like apt-get).
Don't think that is possible with scientific linux and red hat without
manually installing new version from source. Even that gave trouble
because I couldn't use yum or apt-get to update some packages that were
required for PHP5, because they were not available. Don't know what
using debian or fedora packages will do to my installation of scientific
linux, probably break updating process.

What distro do you use ?

Pugi!

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