Is RHEL ES5 really users older versions of Apache and PHP compared to FC7?

[Carl T. Miller]

Eugene Vilensky wrote:
>> Is there like a BETA repository or something like that where I can get
>> and
>> install 5.2 or am I going to have to remove PHP entirely and build from
>> source?
>
> http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en
>
> But of course third party packages are explicitly Not Supported...even
> when they Work Really Well.

Agreed.  Red Hat doesn't support packages even if they're
from Oracle, like this tarball of php52 rpm files.

http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php

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