[ZendTo] Re: A few issues...

[Brad Beckenhauer]

Julian,
   I did not use the zend.to/centos.php page as that page states it is for new installations, so that's probably why I missed the php52-pear, php52-pecl-apc and php52-pecl-memcache packages.
 
Since I had an existing v3.63 system and needed to upgrade the PHP package, I used the http://zend.to/phpfix.php page which does not mention those php packages.  So I see now where I missed those packages.
 
thanks
Brad

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On 15/06/2011 17:23, Brad Beckenhauer wrote: 

I downloaded the current Zendto 4.02-1 64bit Centos vm, did a yum update zendto and compared the installed packages.
 
Somehow I had missed the php52-pear, php52-pecl-apc and php52-pecl-memcache packages during the upgrade from Zendto version 3.63.   I installed those three packages and the Upload progress bar now works with the useRealProgressBar set to 'TRUE'. - (yea fixed one).
These are mention on zend.to/centos.php. But agreed, my upgrade guide could be clearer.


 
During the upgrade, I followed the docs from the zend.to website for the upgrade to 4.02, however I could not get the package names to match up during the php rpmbuild section on CentOS and found a google post referencing the problem I was having (perhaps we could add the relevant bits to the website).
 
Note: the rpmbuild %{dist} tag isn't defined on CentOS 5 because it isn't in /etc/rpm/macros.disttag
So when "rpmbuild -ba php52.spec" generates the binary files the resulting binary files have a double dot in the file names.
Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5135502/rpmbuild-dist-not-defined-on-centos-5-5
 
Options are:
Option 1: Do nothing an let rpmbuild create the binary with the double periods just like the text:  
     rpmbuild -ba php52.spec
 
Option 2: Specify the 'dist' during the rpmbuild.
     rpmbuild -ba --define 'dist el5' php52.spec
I have added that extra command-line parameter to the docs. Thanks for that.


 
Question: After building the PHP packages, could the installed PHP packages be left on the vm?
Not sure quite what you mean. After you've built them, you have to install them.


 
 
I also noted that the Centos 4.02-1 vm has a bunch of -devel- packages installed which where probably used during a PHP upgrade.  I noticed the -devel- as I had read /opt/zendto/docs/building-vm/HOWTO-CentOS.txt where you removed the -devel- packages as part of the CentOS build (BTW...  I loved that you left the txt files).
The devel packages could be removed, but they normally aren't huge and don't cause any problems. So I just left them there.


 
 
Julian,  thank you for your considerable efforts on this product!
And thank you for your input and suggestions!

Cheers,
Jules.
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