Arnold Daniels wrote: > Hi Rasmus, > > I hope you've got a lot of fingers on your hand, because we do this as well. > > All servers are updated with an apt script and our private repository. > It's easier to manage a single php package on all servers, that 14 > different packages. Each time PHP updates we take the newest packages > from pecl and sometimes if PHP isn't updated for a more than a month, we > might make a build with the same PHP version but new pecl packages. > > To my knowledge this is standard practice for ISP's (who build PHP them > selfs). I haven't heard of anyone actually using `pecl update` to > update. Most ISP's just update the whole thing one each week, month, > year, decade.
I'm not talking about pecl update. I never use that either. The way we do it at Yahoo, and the way the distros do it, is to create separate packages for as many things as possible such that in order to quickly update any component we can do it with the lowest impact possible. Not all servers have all the PHP-related packages installed, obviously, so if there is a critical update to a specific package we can limit it to just the affected servers. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
