Kolab 16 and newer version of php than 5.4

[Thomas Black]

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.
--------------------
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


On 19.3.2017 22:35, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:26:46AM +0100, Thomas Black wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
> Hi,
>
>> I have installed Kolab 16 on CentOS 7.
>> Version of PHP is 5.4. I would like to update PHP to version 5.6,
>> because of security and also other web apps need that version. But it
>> seems that is impossible, because packages php-kolab and php-kolabformat
>> has dependency on php-common version 5.4.
>>
>> Is there any possibility to update PHP to version 5.6 when I have Kolab
>> 16 installed?
>> Really is Kolab 16 - latest stable version depended on php version 5.4
>> which end active support in 2014 and security fixes in 2015?
>>
> You might have misunderstood how things work in rhel7/centos7. 
> Versions of packages that are shipped in the distro are supported by the upstream vendor.
>
> So even if PHP project doesn't support 5.4 anymore, redhat does. 
>
> Also you can install PHP 5.6 to centos7 by using the official SCL repos.
>
>
> -- Pasi
>
>> Thanks for any advice.
>> Thomas