Kolab 3.2 and php

Christian Hügel christian.huegel at stonebyte.de
Fri Feb 27 18:26:54 CET 2015


Hi Thomas,

yes you're right but RedHat/CentOS doesn't ship any updated versions of
php. The latest version is 5.3.3 which is pretty outdated. Some new
applications like owncloud etc. doesn't even support 5.3 any more. So I
have to switch to a third party repo to upgrade my php.


Am 27.02.2015 um 18:12 schrieb Thomas Spuhler:
> On Thursday, February 19, 2015 03:28:17 PM Daniel Hoffend wrote:
>>>> After upgrading php, you have to rebuild the php-xxx packages with the
>>>> new php.
>>>> (need to upgrade php-devel also before rebuilding)
>>>
>>> I´m afraid I cant´t follow you. What do you mean with php-xxx? And how
>>> do I achieve that as a simple yum update doesn ´t do the trick?
>>
>> kolab ships 2 php extentions php-kolab and php-kolabformat that take
>> care of kolab-xml parsing etc. On a newer PHP version you've to compile
>> those packages against the php-versions you're running.
>>
>> No ... there's no simple yum update trick for this.
>>
>> --
>> Daniel
> 
> And last but not least, php has a lot of security issues and the Distros are (should be) taking care 
> of those with patches and upgrades. If you upgrade your own (building it instead of upgrading from 
> your distro) you need to apply those patches, especially when you server is on the internet.
> 
> 
> 
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