Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Beta is released and CentOS 9 Stream is available, so my repository is already open and (mostly) fully populated.
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lundi 8 novembre 2021
Enterprise Linux 9 Repository
Par Remi le lundi 8 novembre 2021, 09:17 - General
mercredi 16 décembre 2020
New server for 2021 and later
Par Remi le mercredi 16 décembre 2020, 10:14 - General
I just moved all my web sites to a new server.
If you read this entry, this means DNS have done their work, and you are connected to this new server.
vendredi 22 mai 2020
15 years
Par Remi le vendredi 22 mai 2020, 09:52 - General
This repository is open for exactly 15 years today.
Here is some reference dates
mercredi 22 janvier 2020
PHP version 7.2 required
Par Remi le mercredi 22 janvier 2020, 13:42 - General
See the PHP supported versions list.
So, now, some noarch packages in the remi repository require 7.2 as the minimal required version.
foo requires php(language) >= 7.2
mercredi 18 décembre 2019
PHP 7.1 is dead
Par Remi le mercredi 18 décembre 2019, 13:44 - HowTo
After PHP 5.6, and as announced, PHP version 7.1.33 was the last official release of PHP 7.1
This means that with version 7.2.26, 7.3.13 and 7.4.1 releases, some security vulnerabilities are not, and won't be, fixed by the PHP project.
To keep a secure installation, the upgrade to a maintained version is strongly recommended:
- PHP 7.3 is in active support mode, and will be maintained until December 2020 (2021 for security).
- PHP 7.4 is in active support mode, and will be maintained until December 2020 (2021 for security).
Read :
- PHP Supported versions
- Migration guide from PHP 7.1.x to PHP 7.2.x
- Migration guide from PHP 7.2.x to PHP 7.3.x
- Migration guide from PHP 7.3.x to PHP 7.4.x
However, given the very important number of downloads by the users of my repository (>10%) the version is still available in remi repository for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS...) and Fedora (Software Collections) and will include the latest security fix.
Warning : this is a best effort action, depending of my spare time, without any warranty, only to give users more time to migrate. This can only be temporary, and upgrade must be the priority.
mardi 24 septembre 2019
CentOS 8 repository
mardi 7 mai 2019
RHEL 8 repository
Par Remi le mardi 7 mai 2019, 17:55 - General
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is released and of course my repository is already open and fully populated.
jeudi 7 février 2019
PHP 5.6 is dead
Par Remi le jeudi 7 février 2019, 10:11 - HowTo
After PHP 7.0, and as announced, PHP version 5.6.40 was the last official release of PHP 5.6
Which means that after version 7.2.15 and 7.3.2 releases, some security vulnerabilities are not, and won't be, fixed by the PHP project.
To keep a secure installation, the upgrade to a maintained version is strongly recommended:
- PHP 7.2 is in active support mode, and will be maintained until December 2019 (2020 for security).
- PHP 7.3 is in active support mode, and will be maintained until December 2020 (2021 for security).
Read :
- PHP Supported versions
- Migration guide from PHP 5.6.x to PHP 7.0.x
- Migration guide from PHP 7.0.x to PHP 7.1.x
- Migration guide from PHP 7.1.x to PHP 7.2.x
- Migration guide from PHP 7.2.x to PHP 7.3.x
However, given the very important number of downloads by the users of my repository (>30%) the version is still available in remi repository for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS...) and Fedora (Software Collections) and will include the latest security fix.
Warning : this is a best effort action, depending of my spare time, without any warranty, only to give users more time to migrate. This can only be temporary, and upgrade must be the priority.
mercredi 9 janvier 2019
PHP 7.0 is dead
Par Remi le mercredi 9 janvier 2019, 15:11 - HowTo
After PHP 5.5, and as announced, PHP version 7.0.33 was the last official release of PHP 7.0
Which means that after version 7.1.26, 7.2.14 and 7.3.1 releases, some security vulnerabilities are not, and won't be, fixed by the PHP project.
To keep a secure installation, the upgrade to a maintained version is strongly recommended:
- PHP 7.2 is in active support mode, and will be maintained until December 2019 (2020 for security).
- PHP 7.3 is in active support mode, and will be maintained until December 2020 (2021 for security).
Read :
- PHP Supported versions
- Migration guide from PHP 7.0.x to PHP 7.1.x
- Migration guide from PHP 7.1.x to PHP 7.2.x
- Migration guide from PHP 7.2.x to PHP 7.3.x
However, given the very important number of downloads by the users of my repository (~10%) the version is still available in remi repository for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS...) and Fedora (Software Collections) and includes the latest security fix.
Warning : this is a best effort action, depending of my spare time, without any warranty, only to give users more time to migrate. This can only be temporary, and upgrade must be the priority.
Version 7.0.33-2 includes fix backported from upcoming 7.1.26.
Base packages (php)
Software Collections (php70)
mercredi 28 novembre 2018
Remi modular repository
Par Remi le mercredi 28 novembre 2018, 11:07 - HowTo
Fedora 29, and soon RHEL / CentOS 8, can use "modules", which works like additional repositories, providing alternative versions of software.
Read: Introducing Application Streams in RHEL 8
My repository now supports this feature (and also the old way).
mardi 5 juin 2018
New GLPI dedicated repositories
Par Remi le mardi 5 juin 2018, 11:18 - General
There is now a dedicated repostiory for each GLPI version.
jeudi 23 mars 2017
Away from github
Par Remi le jeudi 23 mars 2017, 10:14 - Développement
For some years, the package development tracking for my repository was managed on a github repository: https://github.com/remicollet/remirepo.
This was, of course, for easiness.
Contrary to fashion of using this gratis, but not really free, service, I chose to self-host my work on the dedicated server already used for my repository, my blog and the forum.
All the sources of packages, tools and web sites will be progressively moved to the git.remirepo.net server, and can be browsed on https://git.remirepo.net/cgit.
Github repository will stay open, only used for issues and other requests, but patch proposal should be send by email (preferably using git format-patch so I can apply them using git am).
I will also consider moving from cgit to pagure, as soon as possible.
jeudi 29 septembre 2016
Switched to HTTPS
Par Remi le jeudi 29 septembre 2016, 10:06 - General
Perhaps you already noticed it, I have switched all the sites for a secured browsing using HTTPS.
So, new addresses are:
- https://blog.remirepo.net/ for this Blog (with an automatic and permanent redirection)
- https://forum.remirepo.net/ for the Forum (with an automatic and permanent redirection)
- https://rpms.remirepo.net/ for the Repository, but classical address stay available.
For the repository, notice that it would only make sense to switch to https by default only if all the mirrors were using it. So, if you want to use the repository in secured mode, you have to select a https mirror, and replace the mirrorlist by the wanted baseurl, please avoid the main site, which is often under high load.
Certificates are kindly provided by Let's Encrypt.
samedi 10 septembre 2016
PHP 5.5 is dead
Par Remi le samedi 10 septembre 2016, 10:21 - HowTo
After PHP 5.4, and as announced, PHP version 5.5.38 was the last official release of PHP 5.5
Which means that since version 5.6.25 and version 7.0.10 have been released, some security vulnerabilities are not, and won't be, fixed by the PHP project.
To keep a secure installation, the upgrade to a maintained version is strongly recommended:
- PHP 5.6 is in active support mode, and will be maintained until December 2018.
- PHP 7.0 is in active support mode, and will be maintained until December 2018.
- PHP 7.1 is in under development, in stabilization phase (Release Candidate) and should be released as stable quite soon.
Read :
- PHP Supported versions
- Migration guide from PHP 5.5.x to PHP 5.6.x
- Migration guide from PHP 5.6.x to PHP 7.0.x
- Migration guide from PHP 7.0.x to PHP 7.1.x
However, given the very important number of downloads by the users of my repository (~20%) the version is still available in remi repository for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS...) and Fedora (Software Collections) and includes the latest security fix.
Warning : this is a best effort action, depending of my spare time, without any warranty, only to give users more time to migrate. This can only be temporary, and upgrade must be the priority.
Version 5.5.38-2 includes fix backported from 5.6.25.
Base packages (php)
Software Collections (php55)
samedi 6 août 2016
PHP version 5.6 required
Par Remi le samedi 6 août 2016, 10:23 - General
See the PHP supported versions list.
So, now, some packages in the remi repository require 5.6 as the minimal required version.
foo requires php(language) >= 5.6
vendredi 18 mars 2016
100,000,000 downloads
Par Remi le vendredi 18 mars 2016, 07:35 - General
The remi repository will be soon 11 years old, and we just reached the 100 millions of downloads :)
Of course, this is only an indicator, first years are not included, some people aspire the full repository, and lot of private mirrors are used and are not included in this figure, but it allows me to observe the growing success of my work, and to compare the popularity of the various available packages.
If the received donations finance the hosting, they are mostly a proof of the usefulness of my work and of the users gratefulness. When they will stop, I will know I can close the site.
Some other repositories try to come after, pulling my work, here or in fedora. They will always stay behind.
A small regret : PHP 5.4 still represent 34% of the downloads, too much (PHP 5.5 20%, PHP 5.6 40% and PHP 7.0 7%) but tendency is good, just a bit slow for me.
A satisfaction : Software Collections represent around 20%, which is a proof this is a good tool, matching a real need of parallel installation.
Small notice: I also need your testimonials.
lundi 5 octobre 2015
PHP 5.4 is dead
Par Remi le lundi 5 octobre 2015, 08:24 - HowTo
As announced, PHP version 5.4.45 is the last official release of PHP 5.4
Which means that since version 5.5.30 and version 5.6.14 have been released, some security vulnerabilities are not, and won't be, fixed by the PHP project.
To keep a secure installation, the upgrade to a maintained version is strongly recommended:
- PHP 5.5 is in security support mode only (no other bug will be fixed) until July 2016.
- PHP 5.6 is in active support mode, and will be maintained until
August 2017December 2018. - PHP 7.0 is in under development, in stabilization phase (Release Candidate) and should be released as stable quite soon.
Read :
- PHP Supported versions
- Migration guide from PHP 5.4.x to PHP 5.5.x
- Migration guide from PHP 5.5.x to PHP 5.6.x
- Migration guide from PHP 5.6.x to PHP 7.0.x
However, given the very important number of downloads by the users of my repository (~47%) the version is still available in remi repository for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS...) and Fedora (Software Collections) and includes the latest security fix.
Warning : this is a best effort action, depending of my spare time, without any warranty, only to give users more time to migrate. This can only be temporary, and upgrade must be the priority.
lundi 3 août 2015
Remi repository is changing
Par Remi le lundi 3 août 2015, 17:05 - HowTo
The "remi" repository exists for > 10 years, it have changed a lot, and some recent changes worth to be explained.
mardi 2 juin 2015
New "remi-safe" repository
Par Remi le mardi 2 juin 2015, 19:20 - General
I've just open the "remi-safe" repository for Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 (RHEL, CentOS).
dimanche 24 mai 2015
New domain: remirepo.net
Par Remi le dimanche 24 mai 2015, 17:26 - General
When I open this web site in 2005, I simply use the famillecollet.com domain I own since 2000.
With the growing success of the repository, I thought it was time to use its own domain: remirepo.net
So, now:
- Blog : http://blog.remirepo.net/
- Repository : http://rpms.remirepo.net/
- Forum : http://forum.remirepo.net/
Of couse, old addresses are still reachable, without any time limit planed.