Centos – how to choose the correct repository for new software on Centos

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I want to install PHP7 and on Centos you can only do that by installing extra repositories. I see a variety of them (remi, ius, webtatic), and the comments on forums are both pro and contra.

I am not asking for personal opinions, but I am interested in what are the professional reasons to chose one over another – criteria that I should take into account and possible pitfalls that I should avoid.

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Notice than the most "official" solution to install recent versions of various software on Red Hat / CentOS are Software Collections.

Red Hat Software Collections version 2.3 provides both php 5.6 and 7.0, and are maintained by Red Hat, and available for CentOS users in centos-scl repository, maintained by the SCLo SIG.

An interesting solution comparison: Running newer applications on CentOS

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Yum – How to Know Which Yum Repository a Package Was Installed From

With yum-utils installed, repoquery will provide the information you seek (here 'epel' being the repository).

$ repoquery -i cherokee

Name        : cherokee
Version     : 0.99.49
Release     : 1.el5
Architecture: i386
Size        : 8495964
Packager    : Fedora Project
Group       : Applications/Internet
URL         : http://www.cherokee-project.com/
Repository  : epel
Summary     : Flexible and Fast Webserver
Description :
Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports
the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL
encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding,
Apache compatible log files, and much more.

Centos ruby 1.8.7 repository

RBEL Repo provides Ruby packages for RHEL based distro's.

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