IUS Community Project » News http://iuscommunity.org a better way to upgrade rhel Thu, 06 May 2010 23:53:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 RHEL/Yum Adds Better Support for IUS Package Naming Convention http://iuscommunity.org/2010/05/06/rhelyum-adds-better-support-for-ius-package-naming-convention/ http://iuscommunity.org/2010/05/06/rhelyum-adds-better-support-for-ius-package-naming-convention/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 23:47:44 +0000 derks http://iuscommunity.org/?p=197 As is documented in a number of places (soon to be removed though), IUS packages introduced an incompatibility with how Yum handled compare_providers.  The issue is outlined in LP#453543.  That said, as of upstream version 3.2.26 and RHEL 5.5/6.0 (backported: 3.2.22-23) Yum now better supports the IUS package naming convention.

In short, IUS names its packages slightly off from stock package names.  For example, mysql becomes mysql50 or mysql51… php becomes php52 or php53, etc.  The reason is outlined in FAQ #1098.  This introduced a dependency issue where if you tried to install a package that say “Requires: php-mysql” … if you had php52 installed, yum would previously attempt to install stock php-mysql rather than the more appropriate php52-mysql.  As of the latest release, Yum now checks to see if a providers ‘base package’ is installed, and if so awards it points in the comparison process.  This makes php52-mysql win out as a better provider for the dependency ‘php-mysql’ becuase it a) provides php-mysql and b) it’s base package (php52) is already installed.  Does that sound confusing?

Many thanks to the Yum developers for accepting our request and helping make IUS the best 3rd party repo for upgrading RHEL!

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Along with this update we have also rebuilt the available PECL packages for php52 for Redhat/CentOS EL 5 only.  The available PECL packages are:

  • php52-pecl-memcache
  • php52-pecl-apc
  • php52-pecl-imagick (new)

As you can see this is a pretty skimpy list.  We are hoping to add more PECL packages to this list, but in order to do so we really need contributions from the community.  Our goal would be to eventually have a comparable list of PECL packages to what EPEL has in their repo.  If you are interested in helping contribute packages to the project, please see the Developer Guide.

Testing IUS Packages

All packages and updates mentioned in this post are currently in ius-el5-testing meaning that they haven’t quite made it to our production/stable repositories.  Any help testing packages is more than extremely appreciated.  If you are interested in contributing to the project by way of testing and feedback, see the Getting Started Guide and more specifically the section from the wiki on Installing Packages from IUS Testing. Once complete either email us or submit feedback via the appropriate tracker on our LaunchPad site.

Along with PHP 5.2.12, there are also updates for:

  • mod_wsgi-python31
  • rsyslog4


Contacting the IUS Core Development Team

If you are unable to communicate via our bug tracking system, mailing list, answers section, etc please send us an email to coredev@iuscommunity.org.

We also hangout in #iuscommunity on irc.freenode.net.

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The wiki is open for community contributions and editing, though we have limited this to OpenID logins with LaunchPad only.  Our reason in doing so is to limit spammers/bots as well as to encourage anyone and everyone to join the IUS Community Members Team on LaunchPad.

If you have any issues using or editing the wiki please send us an email to coredev@iuscommunity.org and we will get things squared away asap.

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If you are at all interested in provided just a little bit of space on your server to mirror our data we would be extremely grateful.  Currently the repo is pretty small:

[wdierkes@dl01 ~]$ du -hs /exports/pub/ius/
1.3G    /exports/pub/ius/

We aren’t expecting the repository to grow at any great speed or anything as we are attempting to keep the package set to a minimum… that said, the repo will continue to grow and therefore more space will be required.

Please email us at coredev@lists.launchpad.net if you are interested!

Update: 20010-01-01

IUS has been growing strong for several months now, and we continue to grow at a rate of 100% +- monthly.  For that reason, we’d really like to get more community support by way of distributed mirror servers.  As similar to the original post, the data required is now around 1.5G.

For anyone interested, we have updated our wiki to include documentation on mirroring for anyone interested in supporting IUS with bandwidth and web space.

Thanks.

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