[wplug-internet] New Linode upgrade available

[Justin Smith]

Has CentOS actually rebuilt Red Hat Software Collections, though? When SCL was announced, I remember thinking "wow, that's great," but I never ended up following through to see if it would trickle down to us common folk.

I know that we've been building MediaWiki from source. Correct me if I'm wrong, Pat and company, but I think one of the reasons we ran an outdated version of MediaWiki for so long was because nobody wanted to go through the hassle of compiling a new version. I'd hate to fall into a rut like that again. That's a real risk now that member activity has tapered off. If there are any other packages we've been building from source, maybe someone else can chime in. 

Other than MediaWiki, I guess my reasons for upgrading are more "likes" than "musts." I'd like us to move to MariaDB from MySQL, and I love, love, *love* using systemd.

-Justin

On Sunday, April 20, 2014 06:33:38 PM Bryan J Smith wrote:
> I think I read the argument against CentOS 5 being having to rebuild
> newer software for it.  And doing such means Red Hat isn't maintaining
> it, so there aren't security fixes, etc... hence the suggestion to
> move to CentOS 6 or, once it's released, CentOS 7.  For those that
> don't know, RHEL 7 Release Candidate (RC) is being released this week.
> 
> BTW, I'm now curious what is being rebuilt for CentOS 5?  Database
> software?  Software languages?  The reason I ask is that Red Hat
> Software Collections (SCL) exists that offers alternative versions.
> Although the big limitation is that it is largely only available for
> RHEL 6, hence CentOS 6.  But SCL does at least exist for CentOS 6, as
> Red Hat releases the SRPMS so it can be easily rebuilt.
> 
> Just a consideration if one is debating whether or not to move to
> CentOS 6 or wait for CentOS 7.
> 
> -- bjs
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