The Webtatic Yum repository is a CentOS/RHEL repository containing updated web-related packages. Its main goals are:
- to provide CentOS/RHEL administrators with the latest stable minor releases of web development/hosting software, which are not provided in CentOS/RHEL distribution minor releases.
- to serve as an additional installation option for some of Webtatic’s projects.
All packages are signed using GnuPG, and are verified using the Webtatic GPG key:
Installation
To set up the repository, install the webtatic-release RPM:
CentOS/RHEL 6:
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm
CentOS/RHEL 5:
rpm -Uvh http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/latest.rpm
Additional information
The RPMs are built from the also provided SRPMs. The Mock build system is used to build both i386 and x86_64 RPMs which satisfy the base, updates and extra repositories of CentOS, which are set up in the base installation of CentOS.
CentOS/RHEL 6 usage
As of el6, Webtatic avoids using the same package names as the base repositories that CentOS/RHEL 6 uses, so that packages are not implicitly automatically upgraded without consent. This also means that the repository can be run enabled=1.
To install packages you just need to use the correct package name as described in the packages wiki:
yum install package-name
CentOS/RHEL 5 usage
It is recommended to use the “enabled=0″ parameter in the webtatic.repo file (which is provided in this state wherever it can be downloaded/installed on this site). This can be used to limit which packages you would like to update, as you may prefer to keep some packages at their CentOS-provided versions.
Packages can then be installed using the flag –enablerepo=webtatic to explicitly enable the repository for only that command, e.g.:
yum install --enablerepo=webtatic package-name
Noteworthy packages
- PHP 5.4 on CentOS/RHEL 6
- PHP 5.3 on CentOS/RHEL 5
- MySQL 5.1 and 5.5
- mpm-itk
- Git 1.7
- Gearmand 0.14 and PHP Gearman pecl extension
- Facebook XHP