[EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL-ANNOUNCE Re: Upcoming OwnCloud changes in EPEL

[James Hogarth]

On 22 Apr 2016 16:21, "James Hogarth" <james.hogarth(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 5 April 2016 at 09:22, James Hogarth <james.hogarth(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >  
> > 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
> >  
> >  
>  Following on from the previous message EPEL6 has it's final update with 
the EOL
message. Please arrange to move to the upstream SCL packages or to
migrate to EL7 if you are using owncloud on EPEL6 - be aware when you do
migrate off of this that it is important to follow the chain through
8.0->8.1->8.2 checking your installation at each step.
>  EPEL7 has had some time in testing and received a positive test so the 
8.1.6 update
there is being pushed today.
>  When that has gone stable an 8.2.3 update will be pushed to epel-testing. 
Please
ensure that your installation is updated to 8.1.6 and fully tested
before applying the 8.2.3 update.
>  
OwnCloud 9.0.2 had been submitted to EPEL7 testing.

Beyond the usual warning of ensuring your system is updated to 8.2 and
fully tested before applying the 9.0 update there is an additional caveat
for nginx users of OwnCloud.

It became quickly apparent in testing recently that the nginx config
snippet shipped was broken out the box and couldn't possibly work.

There is a new nginx snippet configuration being shipped as part of this
update so that nginx behaves like httpd for the path (ie it's under the
/owncloud namespace and not root) and so that an install of owncloud-nginx
will have working configuration without the need to craft an additional
custom config, removing the shipped one in the process.

We have also moved the php-fpm configuration to its own pool to avoid any
conflicts of options.

If using nginx for OwnCloud please carefully validate your config when
updating.