On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Daniel Convissor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am dissatisfied with CentOS' conservatism -- I guess it's not for me -- >> but installing another distro based on a hunch that it might help seems like >> overkill, doesn't it? > > Yeah, there are many Linux distros that really suck at updating packages.
Your analysis is faulty. CentOS (or really Red Hat since CentOS is mostly just re-branded RHEL) not "updating" packages is quite deliberate. Once the major.minor version of a package is selected, it does not change for the life of that OS' major.minor version (and for many things only the major version - ie. the kernel). The reason is that the API provided by the package can change if the minor number changes. So the new package could cause all sorts of strange things to happen if it's linked with or used by other packages. And in fact, the internal PHP API has changed with 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2. So if you install a third party extension for PHP 5.1 and then upgrade to PHP 5.2, the extension will no longer load. > You can always compile PHP yourself. And then re-compile it for every patch level release? Mike -- Michael B Allen PHP Active Directory SPNEGO SSO http://www.ioplex.com/ _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
