RPM Packaging – Building and Deploying your own PHP - Mike Willbanks

- (planet-php) - 5 months ago...

I’ve been building all sorts of RPM’s lately, from vim 7.3 to mirroring the zend server repository and building pecl extensions. In the PHP world, one might ask why not just build it from source? Well, an RPM IS built from source and then distributed to many servers – we can ensure that we have the same packages on each, we can maintain the same versions and if you’ve read my previous post on Pirum you will know that I also like mirroring PEAR packages. It allows us to...