The app fails to install in ClearOS 7.6 - no rh-php56 files available

[NickJH]

The app-php-engines will not install in ClearOS 7.6 as the SCLo upstream have pulled php5.6 from their repos, but now include php7.2.

The app is hard-coded to install 5.6 and as it is not found, the installation fails.

[pcbaldwin]

ClearOS 7.6 should be pointing a ClearOS-SCLo mirror (clearos-centos-sclo-rh), not SCLo upstream. Is this not the case?

It would be best to maintain 5.6 in some capacity.

[NickJH]

It does but it now points to http://download1.clearsdn.com/centos/7.6.1810/sclo/$basearch/rh/ etc. If you change it back to http://download1.clearsdn.com/centos/7.5.1804/sclo/$basearch/rh/ etc you can still get the packages. The ClearOS repo is a mirror of upstream.

It is worth pointing out that 5.6 as had no updates since Dec 2014 so is unlikely to be without vulnerabilities.

Upstream now provide 7.2 instead.

As it is, the 7.6 repos break app-php-engines and, therefore, configuration restore, which is how I bumped into it, but should a vulnerable version still be provided? How do we deprecate it?

[cc-daveloper]

Is this repo up to date and current? If so, I'll get the issue fixed after we port it over to gitlab.