Kolab 16 and newer version of php than 5.4

[Rickard Osser]

Hi,

the way RedHat (CentOS) works is to support the initial version of a
software included in the distribution and back-patch them to meet
security needs. So, for php the initital version was 5.4 and for RHEL7
and CentOS7 that will always stay the current version. Kolab is
packaged with the dependency for php and the version included in
CentOS7 is v5.4. They also give the possibility to do side load later
versions of PHP and other software with SCL but they have different
names and thus aren't automatically tied into dependency resolution.

You can install both versions of PHP and Apache (2.4 in SCL) and then
turn off the regular older version and configure the newer package to
be used instead. You just can't uninstall the dependency version.

I hope this was a clear description of how RH maintains it's
compatibility for enterprises.

Best regards,

Rickard


On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 08:16 +0100, Aleksander Machniak wrote:
> On 22.03.2017 23:18, Thomas Black wrote:
> > thanks for your answer. I don't understand the same. Is it php 5.6
> > too
> > much different that Kolab 16 will not work with php 5.6?
> 
> It should work without issues. I think it might be a bug in packaging
> or
> Swig limitation, but I've heard only about problems with PHP7.
> 
> I can't help you on packaging.
>