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[Leila Lappin]

Hi Allen,

I am afraid I always had to take my chances with the
rpm's I downloaded. I wish I could be of more help in
that regard.  That's one good reason to upgrade to
Fedora since it comes yum which allows users upgrade
using approved rpm's from specific sites.

--- Hans Zaunere <lists at zaunere.com> wrote:

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> Hey everyone,
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> 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.
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> 
> 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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> 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?
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> 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
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> Leila Lappin wrote: 
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> --- Allen Shaw  <mailto:ashaw at iifwp.org>
> <ashaw at iifwp.org> wrote:
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> 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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