[CentOS-devel] Updating/upgrading SCL components

[C. L. Martinez]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 06:09:39AM +0100, Remi Collet wrote:
> Le 12/01/2017 à 23:32, C. L. Martinez a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> > 
> >  I have installed a new CentOS 7 vm fully updated. For technical reasons, I need to use MySQL 5.6.x, PHP 5.6 and NGNIX 1.x web server. To accomplish this, I have decided to use SCL components from CentOS's http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/sclo/, but I have some doubts/questions:
> > 
> >  a/ What are the differences between rh-php56-X. and sclo-php56-X packages, for example??
> 
> First prefix is the "vendor" (author of the collection)
> 
> rh-* package are packages from (maintained by) Red Hat
> (also available in RHSCL official channel for RHEL)
> 
> For PHP, the content is mostly the same than in base repo.
> 
> sclo-* packages are community packages from the SCLO Sig
> https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo
> 
> These additional packages are mostly like additional packages available
> in EPEL for base repo (EPEL doesn't allow SCL for now).
> 
> >  b/ When these tools will be updated? .. In concrete with NGINX version. Official's NGINX stable release is 1.10.x, but in SCL repos only appears 1.8.X release .. Why?
> 
> Minor updates have happen in the past, this may happen again.
> (rh-php56 have been recently rebased from 5.6.25 to 5.6.25)
> 
> Major updates are only possible in new collection (rh-php56 => rh-php70)
> 
> For nginx, initial version was 1.6 (nginx16 collection), now we have 1.8
> (rh-nginx18) and we can imagine a new rh-nginx110 collection later (I
> can't say, and I don't even know if this will exists)
> 
> 
Ok, understood. Many thanks fro your help.

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Greetings,
C. L. Martinez