Hope you all had a great weekend. I'm interested in learning more about the process of creating a distribution from SRPMS. I 
have been reading some howtos online, and have tried some, but most fail with alot of dependencies that I can't seem to get 
to build. I was wondering if you had some documentation on doing this. We have a large 128 node cluster, and I would like to 
build linux for this on one of the machines (IBM x330s). 

Thanks,

- Don

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, August 12, 2006 2:58 pm
Subject: Re: PHP5
To: Jean-Paul Chaput <[log in to unmask]>, Francois Colonna <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: [log in to unmask]

> Hi,
> 
> > Bonjour,
> > 
> > I suggest you uses the source rpm form Fedora. This will work 
> supposing> there is no requirement of packages from higher version 
> than in SL4/RHEL4.
> > Note that in this case you will lost the support on this 
> particular package
> > as it will block any errata/upgrade coming from Scientific Linux.
> > 
> >    
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/source/SRPMS/php-5.1.2-5.src.rpm
> > 
> > Rebuilt it :
> > 
> >     rpm --rebuild php-5.1.2-5.src.rpm
> > 
> > Then install the generated packages :
> > 
> >     rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/php-*
> 
> Either that or wait for SL5 which should be out shortly after RHEL5 
> (due next
> month). Overall it's a couple of months wait really :), but if 
> you're in a
> rush, the above should work.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael.
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 04:38:24PM +0200, Francois Colonna wrote:
> > > It seems that  PHP5 is not available from SL4.
> > > If it is how can I install it instead of PHP4 ?
> > > 
> > > I tried to compile PHP5 from a tarball, then I got a mess !
> > > 
> > > François Colonna
> > 
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