Were the bug fixes backported? If not the ius community repository has 5.2.9 if it's required. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2010, at 14:09, "Rob Tanner" <rtanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
