How to downgrade to PHP 5.2 on Fedora 11

[juanfgs]

Hi there, it's been a long while since I posted here.
This is for anyone interested in downgrading their version of php in a "yum friendly" way.

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WARNING: This works for me for now, if your system experiences any problem after trying this, it is YOUR RESPONSABILITY not mine.
I'll try to update this post if I experience any malfunction after a while
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First, remove php, php-cli and php-common
It took me all the morning to find the way to do this, and tried many ways to solve it, first of all, just in case, add the following option to your yum.conf:

showdupesfromrepos=1

remember to remove it once you have PHP installed

Create a new repo files for Leonidas:

leonidas.repo

[leonidas]
name=Leonidas 11 - i586
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
baseurl=http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=0
includepkgs=openssl php-* php-cli php-common readline

[leonidas-update]
name=Leonidas 11 - i586
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f11&arch=i386
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=0
includepkgs=openssl php-* php-cli php-common readline

Edit your fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo files, adding the following line to each repo:

exclude=openssl php-* php-common readline  php-pdo mod_suphp

This is important so you will be able to update your system normally later (with the proper updates for the packages of fedora 11).

An older version of libreadline is required, as well as older versions of openssl, in order to install them you will have to do some nasty stuff with rpm

Download manually the old openssl package, and readline packages, then install them using the following command for each one:
rpm -ivh --force --excludedocs openssl-0.9.8k-1.fc11.i686.rpm

then proceed to install php with yum.

Edit: Sorry I messed up with the title, it should say "on Fedora 12" can anyone change it?

[Aliaric]

thanks for this post

[juanfgs]

sorry for the bump, but just wanted to confirm that this howto still works for Fedora 13 "Goddard" (as long as the Leonidas repositories are online).



(again sorry for the bump, just upgraded to Goddard)

[74knots]

It works also for fedora 14 x86_64 with some minor changes to the .repo file:

[leonidas]
name=Leonidas 11 - x86_64
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
baseurl=http://mirrors.adnettelecom.ro/fedora/linux/releases/11/Everything/x86_64/os/
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=0
includepkgs=openssl php-* php-cli php-common readline

[leonidas-update]
name=Leonidas 11 - x86_64
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Everything/x86_64/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f11&arch=x86_64
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=0
includepkgs=openssl php-* php-cli php-common readline

Thank you for the post

[alexthegreat]

this link helped me a lot:

http://mirror.alva.ge/pub/other/php5.2fc12/

it contains all the packages needed. and i have installed them on Fedora 14 without any problem or any dependencies.

just delete your PHP 5.3 and install these ones one by one (it will tell you, if you're in wrong order).

wow! enjoy!