In my day job the management selected Dell servers with RHEL ES 3. We have three machines with this distribution (production and development machines).
Red Hat has a policy to stick with the major version number of programs which came with the system. Hence, since PHP 4.x was available when this came out, it is the only one they provide updates for. There are good reasons for this policy but it does create some complications for our work which makes use of features in PHP 5.x and MySQL 4.1.x. Our method to get these versions involved installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL from source. This is a labor-intensive task and when something goes wrong, it is not always easy to decipher the messages and correct the problem. Given that there are periodic bugfix and security updates to this software which is critical to our business, I would like to be able to update these packages from RPMs or SRPMs. Fedora Core 4 has reasonably recent versions of this software, but I don't know if the binaries will install on RHEL ES3. I have seen some message board posts refer to the SRPMS from the Rawhide distribution. I have one of the machines set up for experimentation. However, I need a plan for the purpose of installing these from RPM or SRPM if it is possible. If I had been asked, I probably would have selected FC4. However, the Dell installer discs don't seem to support Fedora for the purpose of configuring the hardware RAID controller. I need to figure out which packages to gather. If they are SRPMs, which command is used to install them. I know of the --build option to the rpm command but I don't use this on a regular basis and would like to get it done right with a minimum of do-overs. :) Thanks for any help, lists of packages, HOWTOs, etc. you can provide. James _____ James D. Keeline http://www.Keeline.com http://www.Keeline.com/articles http://Stratemeyer.org http://www.Keeline.com/TSCollection http://www.ITeachPHP.com -- Free Computer Classes: Linux, PHP, etc. Fall Semester Begins Sep 7 -- New Classes Start Every Few Weeks. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
