Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Testing repo

2012-03-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/13/2012 07:58 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote: > We were using the CentOS 5 testing repo on dev.centos.org to update our > webservers' PHP to 5.2. However, we've just tried building a new > machine lately and found that the repo seems to be empty. Is this a > temporary fault, or has it gone away now t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Testing repo

2012-03-14 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 14.03.2012 02:46, schrieb Johnny Hughes: > > If you absolutely HAVE to have 5.2.x, I would recommend these: > > http://rpms.famillecollet.com/ > > (he has a 5.2.17 version, the latest 5.2.x version) > > I am pretty sure that they (php.net) are not releasing security updates > for the 5.2.x s

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Testing repo

2012-03-15 Thread Peter Peltonen
Hi, On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Unfortunately it seems that PHP code written for 5.2 won't necessarily > run on either 5.1 or 5.3. I'm not a PHP expert myself but my PHP-savvy > colleagues and customers unanimously tell me so. So what's a poor web > server admin to d

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Testing repo

2012-03-15 Thread Spiro Harvey
> Those php-5.2.x rpms were unmaintained and full of security issues, so > they were removed. > You likely do not want any of the RPMs that were there, though I do > have some of them on our build server. > I would HIGHLY recommend that you either use the 5.1.6 security > patched c5 main tree php .

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Testing repo

2012-03-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:22:45PM +1300, Spiro Harvey wrote: > > Looks like we'll have to upgrade the lot and hope for the best. This > time, I'll put any testing packages we use in our own repos. Once > bitten, twice paranoid. :) Or don't use "testing" packages on production boxes in the first