Hi,
Our public library management software (PMB) runs on Apache/PHP/MySQL.
It requires some additional PHP modules to run correctly, namely:
1) php-gd
2) php-yaz
3) php-xslt
I've googled and fiddled around quite a bit, and come to the following
conclusions:
1) php-gd can be installed from extra repos (rpmforge IIRC), so this
one's no problem.
2) To install php-yaz, I have to install the yaz library first. To do
this, I download the FC6 SRPM for yaz from www.indexdata.dk, it builds
without any problem, and I install the resulting libyaz3 and
libyaz3-devel. Then, I can install the according PHP module with a
simple 'pecl install yaz'.
3) Apparently, there's no php-xslt module around. AFAIK, the only way to
have it is to build it into PHP. So I went and downloaded the PHP SRPM
from one of the CentOS mirrors. I edited php.spec and added the
following configure option in php.spec:
--with-xslt-sablot
After installing a myriad of build dependencies, I launched 'rpmbuild
-bb --clean php.spec', and after a while, I got my
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 directory chock-full with resulting PHP packages.
I uninstalled everything I already had PHP-wise, like this:
yum remove `rpm qa | grep php`
Then I simply installed my resulting RPMS like this:
rpm -ivh php-*.rpm
I checked the PHP information page (with phpinfo()), and every module
needed by my application was there.
Now I wonder: how will I manage security and/or bugfix updates for PHP
and its modules in the future? When simply issuing 'yum update', any
update to php will squash my rebuilt version, and PMB will become
dysfunctional. My first idea would be: see if there are available
updates, and in that case, download the according SRPM, rebuild and
reinstall the whole thing. But that sounds a bit tedious.
Or simply put a line in /etc/yum.conf:
exclude=php php-*
???
Any suggestions?
Niki
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