On 2/23/10 11:23 AM, "Eugene Vilensky" <evilensky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> It looks like the old Fedora Core distro included much more recent versions >> of Apache and PHP than does the current Redhat distro. Both systems are up >> to date. >> >> Can anyone explain that? > > Hi Rob, > > The stability of package versions after release is in many ways the > 'core' of what Red Hat Enterprise Linux is about. They will be > somewhat aligned with a given version of Fedora at the time a version > of RHEL was branched, but mostly frozen. > > RHEL5 at the time was mostly aligned with Fedora Core 6. > > [This doesn't exclude feature updates during the first phase of the > 7-year life cycle: > http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ ] > > [Red Hat takes care of security updates for older versions. This > provides the stability that enterprises look for. It does make > running some modern web apps a bit harder...] And it looks like I'm going to have that exact problem. We use a CMS called ModX and apparently it runs on PHP 5.1.1 and above except 5.1.6. There are apparently some serious bugs in the PDO layer (functional, not security issues) that cause serious problems with ModX which makes heavy use of the PDO components in PHP. Is there like a BETA repository or something like that where I can get and install 5.2 or am I going to have to remove PHP entirely and build from source? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
