Kolab 16 and newer version of php than 5.4

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 10:58:50PM +0100, Thomas Black wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for answer.
> 
> I'm sorry, I forgot that redhat has still supporting php 5.4 because it
> has in it's base repos. But even if the php 5.4 is supported by redhat,
> I need for other applications on same server php version 5.6.
> 
> I know I can install php 5.6 on centos 7. I have remi repos installed.
> But because of Kolab 16 and packages php-kolab and php-kolabformat,
> there is dependency problem.
> These packages are dependent on 5.4.
> 
> For example this is part of output from yum update php after I added
> remi repos.
>

There's no need to use remi. 

You can use the official redhat/centos SCL packages.


-- Pasi

> --------------------
> Error: Package: php-kolab-2.0-1.11.el7.kolab_16.x86_64 (@Kolab_16)
>            Requires: php(api) = 20100412-64
>            Removing: php-common-5.4.16-42.el7.x86_64 (@base)
>                php(api) = 20100412-64
>            Updated By: php-common-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 (remi-php56)
>                php(api) = 20131106-64
>            Available: php-common-5.4.45-13.el7.remi.x86_64 (remi)
>                php(api) = 20100412-64
>            Available: php-common-5.6.29-1.el7.remi.x86_64 (remi-php56)
>                php(api) = 20131106-64
> --------------------
> 
> If can't figure out how to solve this.
> When I try to update php package a get these errors (same for
> php-kolabformat).
> When I try to swap packages php and php56 then it would uninstall kolab.
> 
> Is it possible to upgrade to php 5.6 with Kolab 16?
> 
> I hope I describe it well to be understood.
> Thanks
> 
> Thomas
>