On Sunday, 21 בSeptember 2008, David Harel wrote: > After avoiding RH solutions as much as I could I now have to deal with > RHEL 5 Server. My customer insists on PHP-4.2.2 > but when I try to install it I get: > # yum install php-4.2.2 > ... > No package php-4.2.2 available.
As you can easily check, RHEL5 is shipping with php-5.1.6 (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS) So obviously no php-4.2.2 is bundled for it. > # yum install php-4.2.2-17.2.i386.rpm > Error: Missing Dependency: libcom_err.so.3 is needed by package php > ... Pretty obvious, as this is totally different version and have different dependencies. Alternatives: * Try to rebuild an old php-4.2.2 SRPM against the new RHEL. My feeling is that it won't be easy. The version gap 4.2.2 <-> 5.1.6 is significant and I'm almost sure there is a lot of API breakage between these versions. * Make your customer switch to an older platform (older RHEL/Centos or an old Debian, etc.) -- This is not a very wise decision (IMO) since it is bound to create harder maintenance problems as time progresses (new hardware support, other applications etc.) * Make your customer switch to a newer php -- while this may be hard, it is the best choice on many fronts: - There is a big push to drop old php-4.x support. Sticking with it will narrow their options down the road. - Having important infrastructure package like php sync'ed with your distro is very important (security updates etc.) - With all the disadvantages of "enterprise" distors, one of the biggest advantages is that you have a long term support promise for the *provided* software. This means your customer won't have to make the same hard decision two years from now (as long as they choose to stay with RHEL/Centos 5.x and not upgrade to RHEL-6.x which will surely be another hard decision ;-) There's no silver bullet, but I hope it clarifies the tradeoffs. -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron Ignore Your Rights And They'll Go Away ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
