Yes but you have to download those RPM's manually. If you just use the default repo (i.e. "yum install php") as most sysadmins do, you're gonna get something MUCH older than that. Plus there are still occasions where a manual build is preferable to using an RPM.
--Kris On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Kris Craig <kris.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've got a CentOS 5.7 VM running at work and the PHP package returned by >> yum is 5.1.6. Don't have my Ubuntu box with me at the moment but I'm >> pretty sure it's 5.1.x as well. >> >> You probably have rpmforge or CentALT enabled and that's where it's >> pulling the newer build. But even then, the latest one you'll get is >> 5.2.17. I'm not aware of any widely available repos that have 5.3.x. >> >> --Kris >> >> > just checked, centos 5 provides php53 packages, see > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/ . > and here is the semi-official centos repo that I mentioned: > http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/i386/RPMS/ > oldest ubuntu (hardy) provides 5.2.4: > http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/php5 > > -- > Ferenc Kovács > @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu >
