[BlueOnyx:23211] Re: Upcoming BlueOnyx 5210R additions -> 5310R

[Ernie]

As long as the Debian PHP version is still supported for the admserv it doesn't really matter.
I tend to use what is marked as stable not bleeding edge, 7.3.9 is the
stable atm even though 7.4.0 RC 1 is out.

Support for PHP 5.6 ended on December 31st, 2018, so CentOS 7 is a support
problem.

One strange thing about the CentOS 8 relase news, is a couple of weeks they
were saying Centos 8 was deffered for CentOS 7.7 work, but CentOS 7.7 isn't
out yet! Very confusing, perhaps they will relase 7.7 before the 24th.

https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8


- Ernie.




> Hi Ernie,
> 
> > CentOS tweeted relase of 8.0 next week.
> 
> Yeah. Miracles and marvels. To let loose two Game of Thrones quotes I'm
> torn between citing Robert Baratheon ("Start the damn joust before I
> p*ss myself!") and Jon Snow ("I dun want eet!"). ;-)
> 
> > Don't abandon the Debian!
> I won't. It'll go on the back burner until 5210R is out, has stabilized
> and once I've caught up porting all shop packages for 5210R I'll be back
> at the Debian version.
> 
> Like said: The Debian port is is a long term commitment that won't
> generate results fast or easy. Aside from the building of tons of DEBs
> (some part of BlueOnyx, some our more exotic dependencies) there also
> are Debian specific adaptions needed to the BlueOnyx code. Like dealing
> with config file parsing and writing (different paths, different daemon
> versions). And of course we'll also need to adapt base-swupdate to be
> able to install PKGs that don't contain RPMs, but have DEBs aboard.
> 
> Another issue is that Debian directly has a full set of different PHP
> versions available, which is both good and bad. If we use them, then
> base-vsite and base-apache need to be adapted to make use of them. And
> we need to pick one for AdmServ which is compatible with the GUI. The
> 5210R GUI works with PHP-7.2, so we're sort of OK in that regards. But
> going from 7.2 to 7.3 shouldn't be that complex either.
> 
> -- 
> With best regards
> 
> Michael Stauber
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