Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius. Is one preferable to the other? Can their packages be installed in parallel to and without interfering with base packages?
isdtor wrote:> Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of > software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius. > > Is one preferable to the other? Can their packages be installed in > parallel to and without interfering with base packages?We use epel and rpmfusion; there are no conflicts. Elrepo we only use for *very* specific things (like the systems I can use kmod-nvidia on). rpmforge frequently has conflicts. mark
----- Original Message ----- | Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions | of | software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and | ius. | | Is one preferable to the other? Can their packages be installed in | parallel | to and without interfering with base packages? Whenever possible stick with base OS packages, otherwise, tread lightly for there may be demons. Only enable repositories when you absolutely need them and only for the software that you know work. This is in fact what we do, which makes software management with puppet slightly harder. You should also be careful to implement yum priorities to as to avoid third party packages from overwriting base and updates. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices ?A successful person is one who can lay a solid foundation from the bricks others have thrown at them.? -David Brinkley via Luke Shaw
I have never had any problems with EPEL: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Recently I used it to upgrade a kernel to 3.0.99 from the stock 2.6.32 and everything just worked apart from an obscure kernel module for hfsplus support. ta, Andrew On 18 October 2013 21:52, isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com> wrote:> Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of > software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius. > > Is one preferable to the other? Can their packages be installed in parallel > to and without interfering with base packages? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Friday, October 18, 2013 21:52:43 isdtor wrote:> Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of > software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius. > > Is one preferable to the other? Can their packages be installed in parallel > to and without interfering with base packages?We have used IUS on systems, and have had success with it. IUS, while not officially supported by Rackspace, is "funded" by Rackspace, and it is the "upstream" from which Rackspace pulls to have updated PHP/MySQL/etc for their older RHEL systems. j -- Joshua J. Kugler - Fairbanks, Alaska Azariah Enterprises - Programming and Website Design joshua at azariah.com - Jabber: pedahzur at gmail.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A
On 10/18/2013 1:52 PM, isdtor wrote:> Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of > software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius.note that there is now a php5.3 in the base repository, I believe it was part of the 6.4 update, its called php53. I would use this over a 3rd party packaged version unless there's an overriding reason you need a different build. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast