[CentOS-devel] The SCL wiki page contents and confusing SCL situation

[Johnny Hughes]

On 05/23/2016 10:38 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I thought I'd start an article on my personal blog on the various
> options for newer PHP (in particular), python, ruby etc options in
> CentOS - particularly given some of the base packages in EL6 have now
> passed EOL upstream and consequently some applications (eg OwnCloud) now
> have minimal dependencies greater than in base.
> 
> What I found on initial looks to SCL was at best confusing and in areas
> outright misleading, with help needed from Dominic in #centos-devel to
> work through the present SCL situation.
> 
> Doing a general Google search (or the @scl keyword in #centos) will take
> someone to here:
> https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL
> 
> This refers to an old centos-release-SCL package which is still in the
> repos and would direct the user to unmaintained old versions.
> 
> The correct package is actually centos-release-scl ... yes just the case
> needs to change.

We will be removing the old release file when we move to 6.8.  I will
also put a forward in the wiki so that <name>-SCL forwards to <name>-scl

> 
> The documentation for centos-release-scl stuff (ie the CentOS SCL SIG
> stuff) is pretty much nonexistent for a user needing a newer version of
> a package. These pages are very CentOS developer focused and not really
> useful for the end user:
> 
> https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo
> https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo/CollectionsList
> 
> Then once the right package is installed the user can see there is
> php54, php55 and rh-php56 packages but it's not clear why the difference
> in the naming and there's nothing that highlights to someone that if
> they want to use php55 or rh-php56 they'll need to handle a migration to
> rh-httpd24 as well.
> 
> I'd suggest the first step is to have centos-release-scl obsolete
> centos-release-SCL so that users are not left on an unmaintained repository.
> 
> Then as I gather data for my article I'd really like to flesh out and
> improve the 'user facing' SCL wiki page.
> 
> Thoughts on this?
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
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