Re: [webmin-l] PHP & MySQL

Upgrading the OS is not an option, unfortunately. :p

My version is: CentOS release 6.7 (Final)

So, you are saying that via yum at least, or maybe at all, I can't upgrade either of these?


Kris Deugau <[email protected]> wrote ..
> MAR wrote:
> > 
> > I have a server I would like to upgrade MySQL and PHP on.  The server is 64-bit
> and running CentOS 6.7.
> 
> Arguably if you're on CentOS 6.7, you are, by definition, not up to date
> with CentOS 6.  If neither Webmin nor yum run from a root shell show and
> updates, you're technically on 6.8 as below.
> 
> > When I use yum, through Webmin, to look for packages, the highest version of
> MySQL it will show is 5.1.73 and PHP 5.3.3.
> > 
> > Why is it that yum, through Webmin, only shows these packages and not higher
> level ones (even when I do a specific search)?
> 
> CentOS and its upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux do not introduce
> "latest and most broken^W^Wgreatest" versions of upstream software like
> MySQL or PHP in the course of a release's supported lifetime.
> 
> >From my CentOS 6 machine:
> 
> [root@loki kdeugau]# cat /etc/centos-release
> CentOS release 6.8 (Final)
> [root@loki kdeugau]# rpm -q mysql
> mysql-5.1.73-7.el6.x86_64
> [root@loki kdeugau]# rpm -q php
> php-5.3.3-48.el6_8.x86_64
> [root@loki kdeugau]# yum check-update
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * base: centos.bhs.mirrors.ovh.net
>  * epel: mirror.steadfast.net
>  * extras: centos.bhs.mirrors.ovh.net
>  * rpmforge: mirror.team-cymru.org
>  * updates: centos.bhs.mirrors.ovh.net
> [root@loki kdeugau]#
> 
> If you want newer versions you **may** be able to find somewhat newer
> upstream versions in the EPEL respository.
> 
> Otherwise you'll have to upgrade the whole system to eg CentOS 7.  (8
> looks likely to come out some time next year.)
> 
> If you want to remain on an RPM-based system, and keep up with the
> latest upstream releases, you may need to consider running Fedora, with
> its 6-month release cycle, instead of one of the Enterprise releases.
> 
> If you're open to switching underlying Linux distribution entirely, you
> might consider Debian or one of its derivatives;  depending on how
> current you want to stay, either the "unstable", "testing", or "stable"
> release streams.
> 
> -kgd
> 
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