Posted by simonw on Wed 28 Sep 2005 at 13:08
What is the smart way to get PHP5 on a Debian stable box?
I know I can "pin" packages from other releases by following the Debian reference.
I could snaffle the packages manually from testing, I could do my own backport, or use someone elses. I could even rebuild everything from source tar balls from the respective websites.
I'm leaning toward pinning packages, but I've never done this on anything but my own desktop box before, and I gather that "backports" was the unofficial but sensible way of doing this sort of thing before.
I figure there is no "right way" (except perhaps not using PHP5 operationally before for Etch is released?), but what is the way of least resistance?
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