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Does Red Hat Support the Use of IUS Packages?

April 26, 2017ius Packages red hat support

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Does Red Hat Support the Use of IUS Packages?

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Haa! …. no. The idea behind IUS is to provide and maintain packages for RHEL (and other distros) that are inline with the latest versions of upstream software. So, if you upgrade say, php to our php52 packages and then try to obtain support from Redhat regarding PHP you will likely not get it. There are two main reasons that most people want to use IUS: The first being that they absolutely need newer versions of software that RHEL does not provide, and the other being for people that need to do testing of upstream versions. Think of IUS as a better way to upgrade RHEL, if you really need to.