php 5.2 vs php 5.0.4 in CentOS 4.4 Contrib repo

I needed php 5 or greater on my centos server. I enabled
CentOSPlus by
editing /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

(Based on http://www.jimohalloran.com/2005/08/30/php-5-for-cent
os-41/)

But I got php 5.0.4, on running my application I am facing
some bugs.
A lot of bugs have been fixed http://www.php.net
/ChangeLog-5.php after
the release of 5.0.4 close to an year ago.

Is there any reason why we do not have php 5.2 in the
CentOSPlus repo ?

I would be willing to work to put php5.2 in the CentOSPlus
repo, any
pointers on what I should do ?

Thanks for your help.
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Vikas wrote:
> I needed php 5 or greater on my centos server. I
enabled CentOSPlus by
> editing /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
> 
> (Based on http://www.jimohalloran.com/2005/08/30/php-5-for-cent
os-41/)
> 
> But I got php 5.0.4, on running my application I am
facing some bugs.
> A lot of bugs have been fixed http://www.php.net
/ChangeLog-5.php after
> the release of 5.0.4 close to an year ago.
> 
> Is there any reason why we do not have php 5.2 in the
CentOSPlus repo ?
> 
> I would be willing to work to put php5.2 in the
CentOSPlus repo, any
> pointers on what I should do ?
> 
> Thanks for your help.

look at the list history from a few weeks back, http://lists.centos.org/

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On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 21:13 -0800, Vikas wrote:
> I needed php 5 or greater on my centos server. I
enabled CentOSPlus by
> editing /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
> 
> (Based on http://www.jimohalloran.com/2005/08/30/php-5-for-cent
os-41/)
> 
> But I got php 5.0.4, on running my application I am
facing some bugs.
> A lot of bugs have been fixed http://www.php.net
/ChangeLog-5.php after
> the release of 5.0.4 close to an year ago.
> 
> Is there any reason why we do not have php 5.2 in the
CentOSPlus repo ?
> 
> I would be willing to work to put php5.2 in the
CentOSPlus repo, any
> pointers on what I should do ?
> 
> Thanks for your help.

php-5.1.6-xxx will be in CentOSPlus in a couple days time
... however,
we are not about latest/greatest even in CentOSPlus.

CentOS is enterprise ... rawhide is for php-5.2.x, not
CentOS 

CentOSPlus is for STABLE, enterprise quality packages.  We
have been
testing and modifying 5.1.6-xxx in the CentOS-Testing repo
for a couple
months before we decided that it was stable enough for
CentOSPlus.

Even then, we discussed on this list, then submitted (Thanks
to Greg
Swallow) upstream the below issue and waited for their take
before we
decided how to make it stable:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=
215799

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=
215655

Issues like this need to be fixed (and a commitment to the
solution
needs to be rolled into upstream products) before we will
put it in
CentOSPlus as something that we are going to support long
term.

Thanks for your input ... we appreciate it.  And keep
looking where
CentOS can get better, but expect us to balance new with
stable for
CentOS 

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 06:57 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 21:13 -0800, Vikas wrote:
> > I needed php 5 or greater on my centos server. I
enabled CentOSPlus by
> > editing /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

<snip>

> > But I got php 5.0.4, on running my application I
am facing some bugs.
> > A lot of bugs have been fixed http://www.php.net
/ChangeLog-5.php after
> > the release of 5.0.4 close to an year ago.
> > 
> > Is there any reason why we do not have php 5.2 in
the CentOSPlus repo ?

<snip>

> 
> php-5.1.6-xxx will be in CentOSPlus in a couple days
time ... however,
> we are not about latest/greatest even in CentOSPlus.

OK ... php-5.1.6 is now in the CentOS-4 CentOSPlus repo for
i386 and
x86_64 ... enjoy!

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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