[BlueOnyx:17947] Re: cURL update

[Colin Jack]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your reply.


>Please inquire why he wants to have that updated. The version number of
>RPMs on an RHEL clone are not indicative about features or functions, as
>RedHat often fixes and backports things and keeps the version number the
>same.
>
>>   1.  Are there any gotchas in doing this and if not
>>   2.  What is the best way to do this?
>
>PHP is compiled against cURL in order to use it. It *might* break if
>cURL is replaced with a newer version. So I'm not sure how trivial or
>how complicated that would be. This would require some old fashioned
>testing. Like installing a newer cURL and see if it breaks something.
>
>I'd only do that if the specified reason for the upgrade is good enough.

Sound advice! I will ask the question and if he insists I will set up a new VPS and move him to it :)
I can then upgrade cURL and if it breaks move the site back to a production server!

Regards

Colin