Since RHSCL 2.3 was released, RHEL users can install PHP 5.6 or PHP 7.0 without base système alteration, using the appropriate channel.

These packages are also available for CentOS users in the SCL repositories, managed by the SCLo SIG:

# yum --enablerepo=extras install centos-release-scl

So the CentOS project provides the infrastructure and hosting for 4 repositories:

  • centos-sclo-rh : same content than upstream RHSCL
  • centos-sclo-sclo : additional collections maintained by the community
  • centos-sclo-rh-testing : packages to be tested (RHSCL beta version)
  • centos-scl-sclo-testing : package to be tested, maintained by the community

RHSCL users wishing to use these additional packages can configure the centos-sclo-sclo repository by using the  centos-release-scl Copr repository:

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
# wget https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rhscl/centos-release-scl/repo/epel-7/rhscl-centos-release-scl-epel-7.repo
# yum install centos-release-scl

If you are interested by these packages, I recommend to follow the sclorg@redhat.com mailing list where possible issues are discussed, and changes announced. Thanks for using this list for your feedback (testing packages) or any other request. New contributor are also welcome.

Information and documentation on https://www.softwarecollections.org/.

Development is tracked on sclorg-distgit.

Here is the list of available additional packages in centos-sclo-sclo on June 28th 2017:

#   Paquet Version Distribution Remarques
  amqp sclo-php56-php-pecl-amqp
sclo-php70-php-pecl-amqp		 1.9.1 6, 7  
  apcu sclo-php56-php-pecl-apcu
sclo-php70-php-pecl-apcu		 4.0.10
5.18		 6, 7  
  apcu_bc sclo-php70-php-pecl-apcu-bc 1.0.3 6, 7  
  apfd sclo-php56-php-pecl-apfd
sclo-php70-php-pecl-apfd		 1.0.1 6, 7  
  geoip sclo-php56-php-pecl-geoip
sclo-php70-php-pecl-geoip		 1.1.1 7  
  http sclo-php56-php-pecl-http
sclo-php70-php-pecl-http		 2.6.0
3.1.0		 6, 7  
  igbinary sclo-php56-php-pecl-igbinary
sclo-php70-php-pecl-igbinary		 2.0.4 6, 7  
  imagick sclo-php56-php-pecl-imagick
sclo-php70-php-pecl-imagick		 3.4.3 6, 7  
  imap sclo-php56-php-imap
sclo-php70-php-imap		 5.6.28
7.0.14		 7 requires libc-client from EPEL
  lzf sclo-php56-php-pecl-lzf
sclo-php70-php-pecl-lzf		 1.6.5 6, 7  
  mcrypt sclo-php56-php-mcrypt
sclo-php70-php-mcrypt		 5.6.28
7.0.16		 6, 7 requires libmcrypt from EPEL
  memcached sclo-php70-php-pecl-memcached 3.0.3 7  
  mongodb sclo-php56-php-pecl-mongodb
sclo-php70-php-pecl-mongodb		 1.2.9 6, 7  
  msgpack sclo-php70-php-pecl-msgpack 2.0.2 6, 7  
  propro sclo-php56-php-pecl-propro
sclo-php70-php-pecl-propro		 1.0.2
2.0.1		 6, 7  
  raphf sclo-php56-php-pecl-raphf
sclo-php70-php-pecl-raphf		 1.1.2
2.0.0		 6, 7  
  redis sclo-php56-php-pecl-redis
sclo-php70-php-pecl-redis		 3.1.2 6, 7  
  selinux sclo-php56-php-pecl-selinux
sclo-php70-php-pecl-selinux		 0.4.1 6, 7  
  smbclient sclo-php56-php-smbclient
sclo-php70-php-smbclient		 0.9.0 6, 7  
  solr sclo-php56-php-pecl-solr2
sclo-php70-php-pecl-solr2		 2.4.0 6, 7  
  tidy sclo-php56-php-tidy
sclo-php70-php-tidy		 5.6.25
7.0.10		 7  
  uploadprogress sclo-php56-php-pecl-uploadprogress
sclo-php70-php-pecl-uploadprogress		 1.0.3.1 6, 7  
  uuid sclo-php56-php-pecl-uuid
sclo-php70-php-pecl-uuid		 1.0.4 6, 7  
  xattr sclo-php56-php-pecl-xattr
sclo-php70-php-pecl-xattr		 1.3.0 6, 7  
  xdebug sclo-php70-php-pecl-xdebug 2.5.5 6, 7  

for now, all dependencies must be available in base repository (EPEL is excluded), this explain why some extensions cannot be added.

Often requested packages

# Paquet Version Distribution Remarques
  php70-php-pecl-ssh2   6, 7 no stable version yet (1.1 is alpha)
  php70-php-phpiredis   6, 7 needs hiredis, only in EPEL-7