[ZendTo] Re: PHP5 / RedHat 6 / large file uploads...

[Jules]

Gavin,

Sorry for the long delay in replying, I've been in hospital for a bit 
(and have to go back in again in a couple of weeks).

Telling people not to update their PHP packages is not a really good 
idea, as sometimes there are important security updates in them, which 
people will never get if they don't update them.

What you should do is download and install the latest PHP source RPMs 
and rebuild the libphp5.so library each time there are any important 
updates to PHP. Extra work, I agree. But most of the time you just need 
to read the release notes for the new version of PHP and see if the 
issues are worth fixing or not. Only you, as the system admin, can make 
that call for your own systems.

Jules.

On 05/04/2013 17:17, Gavin Younger wrote:
> Jules,
>
> Had a problem with my server not being able to move files > 2GB which I found odd since I was pretty damn sure I'd followed your instructions for patching at : http://www.zend.to/phpfixrhel6.php (and there's evidence that I had sitting in /root/rpmbuild/... ).
>
> This puzzled me somewhat for a while until I listed the installed rpms on the system to discover that the yum package manager had updated them with later (vanilla) php-* packages.  D'oh.......!!!
>
> Of course adding the line
>
> exclude=php*
>
> to
>
> /etc/yum.conf
>
> will prevent this from happening next RHEL6 wants to try and auto-update its PHP.  Might it be worth mentioning this on the aforementioned webpage?
>
> Regards,
>
> Gavin Younger,
> Infrastructure Systems,
> Information Systems and Services,
> University of Newcastle upon Tyne
>
>
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