Upcoming OwnCloud changes in EPEL
by James Hogarth
Hi all,
Following on the process of bringing OwnCloud up to date in Fedora we're
turning our attention to the EPEL users.
Unfortunately EL6's use of php53 means we cannot update any further there
given the minimum requirement of php54.
As such the maintenance update of 7.0.13 that is in epel-testing now for
EPEL6 will be the final one there to be followed by the retiring of the
package.
If you wish to update from that please either migrate to an EL7 base system
or switch to the OwnCloud upstream packages which make use of SCL to
satisfy the php54+ requirement.
On the EPEL7 side of things 8.1.6 is due to hit testing very shortly. This
is a mandatory update as a precursor to the 8.2.3 update in due course.
Once this reaches live please ensure that updates are carried out and your
OwnCloud installation is fully tested prior to the 8.2.3 update.
This is due to a requirement from upstream that updates follow the path 8.0
-> 8.1 -> 8.2 -> 9.0.
Related to this when updating the EL6 install from the 7.0 version to an
EL7 or upstream SCL version please do make sure you follow the upgrade
chain correctly - it is not possible to skip a step.
Once the 8.2 goal is reached a discussion will be had then for EPEL as to
whether to provide owncloud82 and owncloud90 packages or to just stay on
the current major update - but that discussion is some time away as of yet.
The reason for picking owncloud82 as the possible base for this is that
this is the first version that has no php libraries bundled so will be the
easiest to provide the long term maintained base from in a clean fashion
complying to guidelines as closely as possible.
Kind regards,
James
7 years
EPEL repoview retirement
by Kevin Fenzi
Greetings.
As some have already noticed, we have dropped the repoview files that
we used to have along side EPEL files on mirrors.
While it was nice to be able to use a browser to look at packages
there, we realized that it was causing a massive amount of churn for
our mirror network. Every small repoview file was regenerated on every
single update push. This meant mirrors were getting hundreds of
thousands of small files changed many times a day.
There are a number of alternative tools available with the same or
similar information:
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/
or
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/releases/
We hope those will meet users needs while making things much easier on
our mirroring network.
Thanks,
kevin
7 years
OwnCloud retired in EPEL6
by James Hogarth
Hi,
As per the previous notices on the impending EOL OwnCloud is now retired in
EPEL6.
This is due to 7.0.x becoming EOL upstream and 8.0.x requiring a minimum of
PHP 5.4, which is not in EL6 base.
If you are using OwnCloud on EL6 please migrate your installation to the
upstream packages that use SCL for the more recent PHP version or
alternatively on to EL7 which will continue to receive updates in EPEL.
Please note that if upgrading from 7.0.x to a newer version it's required
to move one major release at a time...
7.0 -> 8.0 -> 8.1 -> 8.2 -> 9.0
Regards,
James
7 years
