The Software Collections SIG group is pleased to announce a way of Software Collections packages availability for CentOS Linux users. The Software Collections packages have been build in CentOS Build System
[1] and will be available soon on CentOS mirrors. Collections will be released in stacks, as we test and validate them.

With Software Collections provided by SCLo SIG, users of CentOS Linux as well as other SIG groups in the CentOS ecosystem will be able to use the latest versions of popular application stacks, databases or other content mainly focused on developers. And they are able to do this without any impact to the system versions already installed on their machine.

The SCLo SIG is not only meant to include packages rebuilt from Software Collections that have been made available in Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL), but it is also meant to include updated content or collections that are not part of the RHSCL portfolio at all.

So far, the collections rebuilt by SCLo SIG from RHSCL are devassist09, devtoolset-3, git19, httpd24, mariadb55, maven30, mongodb24, mysql55, nginx14, nginx16, nodejs010, perl516, php54, php55, PostgreSQL92, python27, python33, rh-java-common, rh-mariadb100, rh-mongodb26, rh-mysql56, rh-passenger40, rh-perl520, rh-php56, rh-PostgreSQL94, rh-python34, rh-ror41, rh-ruby22, ror40, ruby193, ruby200, thermostat1 and v8314.

With Software Collections that are not part of RHSCL (so far sclo-vagrant1 collection), both CentOS Linux and RHEL users will be provided by content that is not available on those platforms otherwise.

Getting started with Software collections:
On an updated CentOS Linux 7/x86_64 machine run:
yum install CentOS-release-scl

This will enable the right repositories, and bring any metadata needed to validate the content.

Learn more about Software Collections concepts at:
http://softwarecollections.org/ You can find information on the SIG at https://wiki.CentOS.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo this includes howto get involved and help with the effort.

[1]: http://cbs.CentOS.org

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