Fedora PPC RPM repo?

[Steven J. Norton]

All --

This may speak to an issue I'm having: I've got YDL 3 on an Old World G3
that is currently serving (temporarily) as the production server for a
couple of web sites. Thus, I'm not in a hurry to try drastic upgrades. But
what is the best way to find a ppc RPM of the latest version of PHP
(4.3.10)? [This was an important security update.]

The Fedora PPC development repository has v5 (jumps a level), and the
version that apparently shipped with YDL4 is 4.3.8. The Fedora project has a
source RPM for 4.3.10, but I'm a bit nervous compiling it on my own,
especially for use on a live server. [PHP.net offers source, but not in RPM
format -- even scarier.] Is this something Matthias would be willing to do?
What are my options?

Any help appreciated. Thanks!

  -- Steve Norton

on 2/1/05 11:028 PM, mascarasnake <dontdrill at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:28:08 -0500
> From: mascarasnake <dontdrill at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Fedora PPC RPM repo?
> To: Yellow Dog Linux General Discussion List
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> Hey my simian simpatico -
> you can actuall get acces by pointing yum here:
> <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc/>
> 
> I'm downloading the headers as I type
> 
> cheers, g'luck and all that stuff
> 
> Andrew wrote:
>> On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:25:40 -0800
>> a monkey <the.only.monkey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> I think Yellow Dog is basically the best distro around PPC-wise. But its
>>> RPMs are not bleeding-edge enough for me. The only up-to-date enough PPC
>>> RPM repository that I can find is Fedora's:
>>> 
>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc/Fedo
>>> ra/
>>> 
>>> Any idea how to configure "yum" to use that repo? I know, I know, it's
>>> not the smartest thing in the world to fool around with development
>>> repos, but I'm desperate here. I'm not a big fan of compiling my
>>> software. So, any tips will be appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Signed,
>>> the monker
>> 
>> 
>> For what I know Fedora's yum repositories are not YDL compatible anymore as
>> they don't
>> use zillions of headers files like we do. I heard they got them all
>> compressed in a
>> single big files.. of something like that.
>> 
>> sorry. 


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