[scl.org] Solution for softwarecollections.org troubles

[Honza Horak]

On 12/16/2015 12:50 PM, Dominic Cleal wrote:
> On 07/12/15 20:12, Honza Horak wrote:
>> Most of the software collections (SCL), that are available on
>> softwarecollections.org, are now built in cbs.centos.org and the plan
>> was to promote those builds quite soon as official community builds of SCLs.
>>
>> Since the website softwarecollections.org has experienced troubles these
>> days, I believe we can officially suggest using builds from CentOS Build
>> System as the solution -- not only for now, but also for the future,
>> because it would happen anyway.
>>
>> The software collection packages are now available on CentOS mirrors and
>> you can install the repo RPM this way:
>>
>>     $ sudo yum install centos-release-scl
>>
>> (repo package is available for centos6 [1] or centos7 [2])
>>
>> Then, you can install particular collections:
>>
>>     $ sudo yum install rh-ruby22 rh-ror41
>>
>> Official announcements for the CentOS hosted collections will follow in
>> couple of next days, but you are safe to use the collections now already.
>
> Will the EL6 package here[1] be pushed to Extras soon?
>
> It's currently marked with a candidate tag, and while the EL7 version's
> on the mirrors, the EL6 one isn't.  Only the old capitalised
> "centos-release-SCL" package, pointing to the pre-sclo repos exists.

As you probably noticed, this has been already fixed some time ago and 
package is available in CentOS 6 as well. I've just forgot to reply here.

Honza