Hi Michael, Thanks for your reply.
>Please inquire why he wants to have that updated. The version number of >RPMs on an RHEL clone are not indicative about features or functions, as >RedHat often fixes and backports things and keeps the version number the >same. > >> 1. Are there any gotchas in doing this and if not >> 2. What is the best way to do this? > >PHP is compiled against cURL in order to use it. It *might* break if >cURL is replaced with a newer version. So I'm not sure how trivial or >how complicated that would be. This would require some old fashioned >testing. Like installing a newer cURL and see if it breaks something. > >I'd only do that if the specified reason for the upgrade is good enough. Sound advice! I will ask the question and if he insists I will set up a new VPS and move him to it :) I can then upgrade cURL and if it breaks move the site back to a production server! Regards Colin _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
