Date:  Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:53:48 -0400
From:  Jeremy Knope <jerome (at mark) rainstormconsulting.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:12580] Re: How to upgrade packages (mysql, php, perl, etc.)
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On Apr 14, 2008, at 8:42 PM, mailing list wrote:

>
> --- Kristian Eklund <kristian.eklund (at mark) monostar.net> wrote:
>
>>> I'm totally stoked I figured this out to extend some of the  
>>> packages such
>> as
>>> mysql and php (no longer support as of 12/30/2007, except for  
>>> security
>> v4.4.8).
>>> If you find this useful, excellent, but your mileage may vary.   
>>> Hopefully,
>> I
>>> have contributed back to the community in some way ;-)
>>
>> As far as I understand the problem lies in the legacy Cobalt  
>> software -
>> the administration GUI. This is not compatible with PHP5, and  
>> therefore
>> you must run PHP4 and PHP5 side-by-side.
>
> Confirmed.  I cannot login on my test system, I have to re-install  
> as the
> sausalito stuff depends on PHP4 lib and broke under normal PHP5  
> upgrade.
>
>
> Mike
>

What breaks on cobalt admin for php5?  I bet it could be easily made  
to run.  You have to at least recompile the cce php extension though,  
and probably map some old globals.

We install PHP5 on our machines, but in /usr/local and for the normal  
httpd process only, we leave php4 installed at /usr for admserv to  
use.  We compile it ourselves which is why it's in /usr/local.