SimonHF wrote:* How frequently are the RPMs updated?
* How frequently are security updates applied?
RPM are updated, usually on upstream release date.
I don't know yet how I will maintain the 5.4 packages when this version will be EOL upstream (end of year), I just hope I will have time to backport the critical security fix (I will have to do it, part of my dayjob, for other repo). But of course, I will prefer to see people switch to 5.5 or 5.6.
SimonHF wrote:* How reliable/good is the RPM implementation?
I'm probably not the best person to answer this
But remi repo is upstream for Fedora package, which is upstream for RHEL/CentOS and all other 3rd party repo (which are mostly only "backport" repo).
No software exists without bug, so update in a test / preprod environment is a best practice.
For example in 5.5.19, FPM was mostly broken. But I fixed it quite quickly (upstream), and released a fixed set of RPM (2 days after release, without having to wait 1 month for 5.5.20).
Laptop: Fedora 38 + rpmfusion + remi (SCL only)
x86_64 builder: Fedora 39 + rpmfusion + remi-test
aarch64 builder: RHEL 9 with EPEL
Hosting Server: CentOS 8 Stream with EPEL, rpmfusion, remi