I would prefer to use a tool designed specifically for managing php extensions, like pecl and pear, rather than having to rebuild and repackage the php rpm(s) every time there was a fix released for php. To my knowledge, only a handful of pear extensions are typically packaged for the average distro and pecl extensions usually aren't packaged at all. SLES doesn't offer a single pear extension as an rpm. In fact, pear itself is only available on the SDK dvd. If you're going to do any serious development of php applications, you're going to want to use at least a few of these extensions (pecl's apc especially). Would you rather maintain your own php rpms or just the extensions? pear and pecl are built just for that purpose and that's what I recommend you use.
Zach ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Post" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:28:12 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: PHP to DB2 connection >>> On 9/1/2009 at 11:35 AM, Zach Pratt <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > Then it should just be a matter of running pecl install ibm_db2 . Bypassing the package management tool that comes with the OS is never a good idea, no matter which OS you're talking about. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
