On 18 April 2012 06:40, Kris Craig <kris.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Forgive me if this has been addressed before, but I was wondering: Have we > ever considered maintaining an RPM for PHP dependencies for each version > branch? The are legitimate reasons why people prefer to build PHP manually > instead of building from a repo, but those reasons often don't extend to > the various extensions. So ideally, it would be awesome to be able to > build those from a repo and have them match the builds used by that > particular PHP version. For example, on CentOS I might do something like, > "sudo yum install php-common --enablerepo=PHP5_3".
I'm not really sure there's much benefit to the PHP project itself doing this — I know we still ship a spec file, but other than the special case of Windows, I think it's better if we just ship a tarball and let downstream maintainers work their magic from there, including build dependency aids like this. It's hard to cover all the RPM-using distributions with a single RPM, and it might be more hassle than it's worth to try. > I was actually thinking of creating and maintaining some RPM packages for > that purpose, but I figured it might be good to find out if there's already > a better method first. You might want to talk to Remi Collet before putting much effort in; he builds excellent RPMs for each version for Fedora, Red Hat and CentOS and may well have some ideas on the best way to go about this. Adam -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
