Installs wrong version on CentOS 7

[anlutro]

On CentOS 7.4, I tell the module to install PHP 7.0 or 7.1:

class { 'php::globals':
  php_version => '7.0',
} ->
class { 'php':
  manage_repos => true,
}

However, PHP 5.6 gets installed.

[vagrant@default ~]$ php --version
PHP 5.6.30 (cli) (built: Jan 19 2017 07:57:06)

I think this is because the remo repo is hardcoded here and never gets overridden: https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-php/blob/f8a7d158a20ba9904813292be3dbfc925046951f/manifests/repo/redhat.pp#L10

Puppet version: 4.10.1 Module version: 4.0.0

[cvharris]

Exactly same problem

[ktreese]

Same issue here

[arudat]

Hi, don't use the 4.0.0 version, try the master branch, it is fixed there

[maxmoeschinger]

Are you sure about this? I am still getting php 5.6

[brunoyb]

I haven't tried it, but maybe you can override defaults as a workaround?

class { '::php::repo::redhat':
  yum_repo => 'remi_php71',
} ->
class { '::php::globals':
  php_version => '7.1',
} ->
class { '::php':
  manage_repos => true,
}

It would be nice for it to work just by setting the php_version though.

EDIT: I just tested the above with puppet-in-docker and it seems to work.

[maxmoeschinger]

Yes it works if I overwrite the default for RedHat. But when you specify version 7, it should be installed and if not possible, the build should fail.

[philomory]

So I'm not finding that manually specifying the yum_repo parameter helps at all, with 5.0.0.

[luisbrandao]

This has been broke for some months already. I am on master, and it still a problem. My workaround is to use a fixed fork of the repo so far.

[Wernervdmerwe]

I have a similar problem, but with a twist. We need to install 'Official' packages on our CentOS farm, thus our go-to is the official software collection repos. This can install php 7.0, but the package name is rh-php70.

I see the manifest dynamically create a $package_prefix for the package in question, but sanity check earlier states is has to be an integer:

From globals: Optional[Pattern[/^[57].[0-9]/]] $php_version = undef,

$globals_php_version = pick($php_version, $default_php_version)

Due to us running CenetOS, it becomes: $package_prefix = "php${globals_php_version}-"

Could also be an option to be able to specify a custom package_prefix in order to use official SCLo repos?

[bastelfreak]

Hey. Could one of you provide a patch for this?

[brian-lamb-software-engineer]

its odd that this issue was from 2018, but im still having to use the prefix (Centos7), will that remain? Also, this is not landing in the correct path, e.g. php instead its staying php73 even if no other php on the system, for e.g. Where as if i installed the repo default of 5.6, it ends up correctly accessible as php. Its obvious its just following the binary name, however cant there be some logic in there that symlinks it automatically? Maybe by specifying the install path/name, or something?

1. why cant / how can I specify the version in the global without specifying the prefix if i want to use a default repo (remi)?
2. More importantly, what can i do to easily add the symlink, from within the php class itself? for now im using

    file { '/bin/php':
      ensure => 'link',
      target => '/bin/php73',
    }