Re: Backport of PHP 4.3.8 security patches to 4.3.7
| From: | Albert Chin | Date: | Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:38:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Backport of PHP 4.3.8 security patches to 4.3.7 | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:55:33AM +0200, Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Albert Chin wrote:
>
> > Is the following patch correct in addressing the security fixes from
> > 4.3.8 for 4.3.7?
>
> Why would you want to do this? 4.3.8 is exactly 4.3.7 + all the security
> patches. Backporting makes absolutely no sense as you'd be re-creating
> 4.3.8.
Depends on how you've built PHP. We install PHP into a separate
directory for each version, to make testing new versions less painful.
Backporting the fixes means less work for those currently running
4.3.7.
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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)