Fionn Behrens wrote: > I have a customer who is running a very large project on PHP4. Because > of subtle object usage details in programming, a port to PHP5 would be > pretty identical to a complete rewrite (about 6-8 man-months estimated) > and is not financially feasible because of short budgets (like > everywhere). PHP4 was very popular and for similar reasons there are many people in a similar situation as you are with the current PHP4 to PHP5 migration. This was discussed recently on this list and you might find the discussion there interesting. Here is my own follow-up posting to a recent discussion. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.backports.general/5357/focus=5371 My solution is to use an Etch chroot. But any easy virtualization technique should be useful here. I would at least upgrade your system to Etch and get current on security upgrades to the present day. Then you can worry about moving the system to Lenny. One thing at a time is easier. > However, a server upgrade is on the list (they still run sarge) and I > need to know if anyone knows about a repository or something where > anyone hosts some sort of more-or-less-maintained backport repository > for ANY debian or deb-based Linux-Distribution that still gets security > updates! (they are on sarge, currently) Etch is still getting security upgrades for at least a while longer. Bob
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