[eduVPN-deploy] CentOS 8 support?

[François Kooman]

On 16.10.19 14:58, Stefan Winter wrote:
> Hi,

Hi!

> I'm used to work with remi, and we are also starting from scratch and
> not in production yet.
> 
> I.e. I would be a good guinea pig :-)

The problem is, if we use/support Remi's repo now, we are probably stuck 
with it. I don't know if there will be an (easy) migration path back to 
EPEL8 later on...

We didn't switch to Remi for CentOS 7 as it wasn't really needed... 
everything worked pretty well with PHP 5.4. The SCL repositories didn't 
provide php-(lib)sodium so we couldn't use those, unfortunately.

> So, if you don't foresee major issues with it, I'd go ahead and install
> EPEL+remi. The version to use is then PHP 7.3?

There are currently no packages for CentOS 8. You could try to make your 
own CentOS 8 eduVPN RPM repository based on scripts available and adding 
Remi repository to "mock". See [1] for the scripts. The documentation is 
not entirely up to date for the "new-builder" branch...

I'd be very interested to hear if that works! I may look into this 
myself in the near future...I'm kinda curious now if that would work :-)

Regards,
François

[1] https://github.com/eduvpn/documentation/tree/new-builder/release