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

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.
> 
> 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?
> 

I take that back .. the file will go away when we move to 6.8 .. it does
not seem there is any documentation on how to use the new system.

James, when you have all the things figured out, we can give you access
to change that WIKI page and also have it be updateable by the people in
the SCLo SIG.


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