On 8/1/07, Rommel Asibal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > I'm new here, and was hoping someone has had experience with setting up > Mediawiki on a Centos box; I'm pretty new to Centos and mw and have been > doing so much googling my hands hurt, but am still having problems with > upgrading my MediaWiki to the latest version cleanly... im trying to get our > company wiki a few more features but not sure if i'm on the right track. > > i have a few questions in mind, like > > 1. should i be using the centosplus repo? i saw that there was a > mysql-devel package there, im not really sure but does that mean its still > under development and not a stable release? (im using centos 4.4) > > If you are building an embedded system, or if you have a development machine where you'd want to try the updates out first before rolling them out to the production machine, then there's actually no need for a centos plus repository there, unless you would want them to be there.
> 1. will testing on vmware be any different than testing on a > production box? (i highly doubt it but i just want to be sure) > > Not really... > 1. could it be that mediawiki is buggy with certain plugins / > extensions; oh i wish i knew how to debug something liek this but its just > so time consuming... > > though linux doesn't have dtrace and mdb, you could probably have some success with a combo of strace and lsof... HTH can anyone give me a few ideas to play with? > > tia! > > ~rommel > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- La Dee Dee, 1, 2, 3. VRRP ain't free. O P E N B S D CARP is free
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