[clue-tech] Compiling PHP under FC5

[Collins Richey]

On 5/19/06, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Collins" == Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Collins> On 5/19/06, erik at ezolan.com <erik at ezolan.com> wrote:
> >> > yum list 'php*' to see all of the php packages.
> >>
> >> gah. Livna is getting 404s from all it's mirrors.  To fix I had to:
> >> rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
> >>
> >> which wouldn't install until I removed package
> >> "yum-fedorafaq-4-2005.11.29"
> >>
> >> I think this was the issue. None of the livna packages were showing
> >> up in yum. Yum extender didn't have checked as one of it's
> >> repositories so it wasn't giving me any errors.
> >>
> >> > You probably want:
> >> >
> >> > yum install php-mysql <snip> > yum install php-devel
> >>
> >> Installing php-mysql seems to have satisfied the requirements. I'll
> >> install php-devel later when I want to use sqlite.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the help! I was really stuck. :-)
> >>
>
> Collins> It's been a whil since I worked with RH stuff, but the one
> Collins> thing I remember from CentOS days: mixing Livna packages with
> Collins> anything else is a recipe for disaster, or at the very least,
> Collins> frustration. Dag is a much higher quality source of packages.
>
> I haven't installed anything from Dag in a while (with extras and
> livna pretty much everything I use is available there), so I can't
> comment on their quality recently...
>
> However, liva is very very high quality in my experence. They do a
> very good job of making sure they don't step on any other packages and
> do very high quality packaging.
>
> Perhaps you are thinking of atrpms? While the packages there are nice,
> they are very very quick to replace core packages with their own for
> pretty much any reason. For example, for a long time they had their
> own version of rpm that overode the core rpm.
>
> To each their own, but I am pretty impressed that liva can package the
> ati X driver and make it not overwrite anything, let you switch back
> and forth from it and the native X driver, and work nicely. (The ati
> installer does none of these by default).
>

I'm happy you've had good results. Most folks on CentOS prefer Dag,
but I haven't been active there in months now, so my knowledge is
pretty dated.


-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
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