[Fedora] Re: FC5 -> FC6 Upgrade/Update

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> A question though: why do you not use the stock Fedora
> apache/php/sendmail/mysql? That might be where some of your grief will
> come from as rpm/yum will know nothing of them.
    Because I run Apache 1.3 with the latest PHP.  Last I checked, stock 
Apache is 2.x which I don't want.  And new releases aren't proliferated 
into updates as fast as I would like them to be.  Sendmail 8.14.0 was 
released January 31st.  The last update for FC was November 6th with 
v8.13.8-1 (FC5) or October 5th with v8.13.8-2 for FC6.  Neither of which 
are current anymore and I have milters that rely on a more recent 
version of sendmail.  Same story for MySQL.  New releases simply don't 
make it into updates for a while after being released.

    It's a personal choice.  I don't see that part as a grief because as 
far as I know, yum/rpm ought to simply ignore whatever they don't 
recognize as one of their packages.  Out of that group, MySQL is the 
only one for which I install rpm binaries so maybe that might cause 
yum/rpm to hiccup.  But the rest aren't rpms, just source compiles, so 
they wouldn't show up in the rpm database anyway.

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