We are running a CentOS 5.6 system, and want to install php53 with php-mcrypt.

However, this introduces a dependency conflict between php-common & php53-common. Does anyone have a good workaround for this problem?

host # yum install php-mcrypt
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Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package php-mcrypt.x86_64 0:5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: php-api = 20041225 for package: php-mcrypt
--> Processing Dependency: php >= 5.1.6 for package: php-mcrypt
--> Running transaction check
---> Package php.x86_64 0:5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: php-cli = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 for package: php
---> Package php-common.x86_64 0:5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package php-cli.x86_64 0:5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 set to be updated
--> Processing Conflict: php53-common conflicts php-common
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
php53-common-5.3.3-1.el5_6.1.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
  --> php53-common conflicts with php-common
Error: php53-common conflicts with php-common
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                        package-cleanup --dupes
                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

This is apparently a known problem (See php-devel, Bug 700179 and Bug 695708) and this post at the CentOS forums, but there is no official fix yet.