php module management

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 06:43:22PM -0400, William Muriithi wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am wondering if there is a way on adding a php module without
> necessarily compiling php from source. This is the situation, a
> centos 5.3 and everything running on it is rpm. So I have a need to
> use php-ctype, php-SQLite and php-tokenizer, which from what I can
> tell are not in any of the repository available for Centos 5. It
> however seem they were available during Centos 4 times, but for some
> reason dropped during Red Hat 5 introduction
> 
> 
> So, I have spend a substantial time googling for a gem/ruby like style
> of adding a module without going to the operating system repository. I
> am not getting any luck with this, and it look I will need to use
> rpmbuild to make a php rpm with the above modules built in.  Would you
> agree this is the only option on the table, or would you be aware of
> another less involving method of modules management?

I know php on Debian is entirely modular.  Every extension is its own
package.  So clearly modules can be built seperately.  I haven't looked
at exactly how it does the build.

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