[eduVPN-deploy] Ubuntu package repository

[François Kooman]

On 19.02.21 15:59, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Joost!

> https://deb.sury.org/ , maintained by the Debian PHP maintainer,
> links to https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php/ .  I
> would trust him to ship sane PHP .deb's for Ubuntu.

This is neat for development! Being able to install different versions!
A bit similar to Remi's RPM repository for CentOS/Fedora. However, I'd
prefer to stick to the official packages, even though they are made by
the same person as the reduce the number of moving targets.

To see what I mean by this, check for example [1]:

"The Apache2 FPM configuration has been updated to not pass URLs for
missing files to PHP-FPM in PHP 5.6 - PHP 8.0 (this is potentially
breaking change) (Courtesy of Kevin Locke)"

This is something I'd like to avoid having to deal with in case admins
install the updates and their setup breaks for this reason. Not sure it
would, but I'd hate having to chase after these kinds of unpredictable
things.

Note, that switching to this repository would probably be acceptable if
you offer a service and you are running the only instance, but not when
having lots of installs "in the field" where you may panic if you see
such a change coming and can't stop it ;-)

Cheers,
François

[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/february-update-47617742