RHEL8: keeps installing php7.2.4

[abctaylor]

Hello - after trying many hacks and tricks in previous issues submitted, this still appears to be very non-trivial to do, and the php_version setting is essentially useless. How can a different version of PHP be installed? No matter what you enter for php_version, it still chooses something different.

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 6
• Module version: 8.2.0

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

  class { '::php::globals':
    php_version => '8.2',
    config_root => '/etc/php/8.2',
  }->class { '::php':
    manage_repos   => false,
    package_prefix => 'php82-php-',
    settings       => {
      'PHP/max_execution_time'  => '90',
      'PHP/max_input_time'      => '300',
      'PHP/memory_limit'        => '1G',
      'PHP/post_max_size'       => '1G',
      'PHP/upload_max_filesize' => '10G',
      'Date/date.timezone'      => 'Europe/London',
    },
  }

What are you seeing

PHP 7.2.4 gets installed, no matter what.

What behaviour did you expect instead

PHP 8.2 gets installed

[abctaylor]

The issue is because the OS' default repo (e.g. rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms) takes preference, and this has an older RPM than Remi.