Compatibility with EL5 php53* packages

[breun]

The current phpMyAdmin and php-ioncube-loader packages from Atomic won't install on a server using the EL5 php53* packages, because they have dependencies on 'php', while the php53 package only provides 'config(php53)', 'libphp5.so', 'mod_php' and 'php53'. Could the Atomic PHP-related packages be modified to also work with the EL5 php53* packages?

[scott]

why would you install the php53 packages? those are obsoleted by the newer php 5.3.8 series

[breun]

Some clients prefer to stick with the CentOS packages, since they are maintained for a longer time. If you're using the Atomic PHP packages and Atomic goes to PHP 5.4 or higher, they have to as well, which is usually not very convenient.

[scott]

Im not sure what you're asking for here then

[breun]

I'd like to be able to use packages like phpMyAdmin, php-ioncube-loader and php-zend-guard-loader from Atomic with the EL5 php53* packages from CentOS. I'm sure they are compatible as they work when I install them using rpm with the --nodeps flag, but if the dependency on 'php' could be changed to to something provided by both the php and php53 packages, like 'libphp5.so' or 'mod_php', then the packages I mentioned would also cleanly install via yum on servers using the EL5 php53* packages.

[breun]

I guess alternatively I could create a dummy compatibility packages which provides the required php* dependencies and requires their php53* counterparts.

[scott]

Yeah its probably better to do those yourself, maintaining parallels implementation logic like that is a lot of extra overhead.

[breun]

Ok, I built those and it's working.