php*-php-litespeed extensions are required?

[bellwood]

Greetings,

As I'm working through deploying PHP 8.2 on some servers, I've noticed that php82-php-litespeed was installed.

I went to uninstall this extension, as we don't use Litespeed, and seemingly, if I try to remove php81-php-litespeed or php82-php-litespeed, EasyApache wants to remove the entire PHP version and all other extension related to the parent PHP version.

Is there a reason or need for Litespeed extensions to be required when Litespeed isn't in use?

 

[vanessa]

You'll have to remove the entire set of packages and reinstall the cpanel/cloudlinux (depending on your OS) packages. So yes, it's a full removal and reinstall, as the litespeed packages are grouped and come from a different repository.

In short, no, you don't need them, it just looks like that was the profile installed on the server for some reason. I haven't seen this be default on any server I've worked on, even servers with Litespeed.

 

[bellwood]

@vanessa thanks, we don't use a standard profile so I'm not sure how litespeed extensions ever got installed.

I would prefer to use the yum shell to remove what is needed (similar to changing the MPM without disruption) versus a complete tear down and re-install via EA.

 

[bellwood]

@cPRex do you know if this would be supported?

yum shell
yum remove ea-php81-php-litespeed
yum remove ea-php82-php-litespeed
run

I don't have a test machine available to verify it and really can't fathom coordinating a maintenance window to remove a PHP extension that will require a down/up of the entire PHP package.

Oddly enough, when I try to install PHP 8.2 on other hosts, if I remove that one extension as part of the install process, it unselects everything else related to PHP 8.2 as well.

Seems to me, for some reason, this extension *is* required?

 

[cPRex]

I don't see why it wouldn't work - you can manually remove packages with Yum on any system just fine. EA4 is just a very pretty interface to Yum.

 

[bellwood]

So, gave it a shot, firstly, corrections:

yum shell
remove ea-php82-php-litespeed
run

However, the system still wants to remove all of PHP 8.2 citing:

================================================================================
Removing:
ea-php82-php-litespeed     x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     6.6 M
Removing for dependencies:
ea-php82                   x86_64     8.2.6-2.3.1.cpanel        @EA4     0.0
ea-php82-pear              noarch     1.10.13-2.2.17.cpanel     @EA4     2.1 M
ea-php82-php-bcmath        x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     477 k
ea-php82-php-calendar      x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     192 k
ea-php82-php-cli           x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4      13 M
ea-php82-php-curl          x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     518 k
ea-php82-php-devel         x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     6.1 M
ea-php82-php-fileinfo      x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     7.4 M
ea-php82-php-fpm           x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     6.7 M
ea-php82-php-ftp           x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     225 k
ea-php82-php-gd            x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     1.4 M
ea-php82-php-gettext       x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4      62 k
ea-php82-php-iconv         x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     194 k
ea-php82-php-imap          x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     1.4 M
ea-php82-php-intl          x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     3.9 M
ea-php82-php-mbstring      x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     2.6 M
ea-php82-php-mysqlnd       x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     2.5 M
ea-php82-php-pdo           x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     1.0 M
ea-php82-php-posix         x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     159 k
ea-php82-php-soap          x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     2.0 M
ea-php82-php-sockets       x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     434 k
ea-php82-php-xml           x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     2.2 M
ea-php82-php-zip           x86_64     8.2.6-5.5.1.cpanel        @EA4     410 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove  1 Package (+23 Dependent packages)

Installed size: 62 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n

Perplexed as to why a litespeed extension is required?

I could probably use RPM to skip deps:

rpm -e --nodeps ea-php82-php-litespeed

...but not sure that's wise.

 

[vanessa]

As I stated previously, these packages are grouped together. I wouldn't use --nodeps unless you want to create a broken system next time you use EA. Again, your only clean option is to install a new profile.

 

[bellwood]

As I stated previously, these packages are grouped together. I wouldn't use --nodeps unless you want to create a broken system next time you use EA. Again, your only clean option is to install a new profile.

Oh I agree, I guess my point above was, we are on a custom built profile, we've never used Litespeed nor manually installed that extension.

Yum is oblivious to the EA profile in use, so, removing that one shouldn't be such a nuisance.

For instance, I can attempt to remove other bolt on extensions, like say EXIF or SOAP and none of those try to remove the entirety of my PHP installation.

 

[bellwood]

I've also just checked every provided EA profile, they *all* have the litespeed extension enabled and if I try to remove it from the profile (that isn't in use) it wants to remove all of PHP.

 

[bellwood]

As I was opening a support ticket for this, the following article, from a year ago, was suggested:

https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/5465079964951

...with a corresponding case of CPANEL-40458:

The ea-phpXX-php-cli packages require the ea-phpXX-litespeed packages as a dependency. The main ea-phpXX packages require the ea-phpXX-php-cli packages as a dependency.

This chain of dependencies makes it so that attempting to remove ea-phpXX-litespeed will also remove the rest of the PHP packages for that entire PHP version.

As the case suggests (in the event this isn't public, I am signed in) the recommended resolve IS to use:

rpm -e --nodeps ea-php80-php-litespeed

...with the following notation:

The LiteSpeed packages however will be reinstalled any time there is an update published to the ea-phpXX-php-cli packages.
You must manually remove the LiteSpeed packages any time an update to PHP-CLI is pushed out.

Good to know its been acknowledged and that, perhaps, in this case, I'm not crazy