On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 11:05 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 21 May 2018 at 23:18, Sérgio Basto <ser...@serjux.com> 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.
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