On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 11:05 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 21 May 2018 at 23:18, Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > Latest php 5.4 release was in 2015-Sep-04 ( php-5.4.45.tar.gz ) > > 3 years ago ... > > We will have el 7 until 2024 , more 6 years, can we update php to > > 5.6 > > on el 7 ? or PHP apps for epel have to move to remi repo ? > > I am expecting they will need to move to the remi repo because php- > 5.4 > is shipped in RHEL and we do not over-write those packages. In the > past RHEL would have shipped a php56 which would have done this, but > I > expect that they instead are wanting people to use SCL's for this. > Which would require us to either ship the SCLs ourselves (as we can't > assume a person has that repo turned on) or we create a repository > which requires them so that people aren't broken. I have to check SCL , but SCL-epel sounds good to me > There is another option where someone packages up the php56 rpms in > some way which could be shipped in EPEL, but I think that is a large > amount of work and I believe remi has pointed people to use scl's > instead. -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/FH2MIFSMFG7UJFN6ZBBDSZGFZSERGTRZ/
