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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20160523/b1be196b/attachment-0008.sig>