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

[Michael Huntley]

Jules -

We love your software, and the community as a whole cares about you.
Like a true champion, you keep things close to the vest and don't
complain.  It's been a looooong time since we've all had an update.

I wish you all the best.

Cheers!

michael patrick saward huntley

On 4/15/2013 7:24 AM, Jules wrote:
> 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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