[SGVLUG] How do you use yum/dnf across major versions?

[Carlos Meza]

Oh, it is silently failing?! I missed that part. Sorry I can not offer
more. That sounds frustrating.

Carlos Meza
@digitlalr00ts

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Matthew Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:

> CPAN is not recommended for Perl on RH based distros as dependency
> tracking is not handled properly.  If you install through yum or dnf
> you won't have a future update cause incompatible versions to be
> installed.
>
> Also CPAN is not trivial to get to work properly, you end up spending
> a lot of hours monthly in build maintenance instead of application
> deployment.  Stable packages from the repos are the way to go (at
> least as long as they are supported by RH :(  ).
>
> Matt
>
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> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Matthew Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks Carlos,
> >
> > You are right that the package is in the EPEL repo, but I still have
> > the same problem:  How do you ask RHEL7 to install a RHEL6 package?
> > It appears to be silently ignored.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > ---------
> > Matthew Campbell
> > Storage and Cloud Strategy
> > Office of the CTO
> >
> > Kaiser Permanente
> > 99 S. Oakland
> > Pasadena, CA 91101
> >
> > 626-564-7228 (office)
> > 8-338-7228 (tie-line)
> > 818-314-9897 (mobile phone)
> > Green Center 3-North, 031W29
> > ---------
> > kp.org/thrive
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Carlos Meza <Carlos at digitalr00ts.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hey Matt,
> >>
> >> The first thing that comes to mind is to use the EPEL repository. It
> does
> >> appear to be there,
> >>
> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repoview/perl-Net-SSH.html.
> >>
> >> I am not a Perl person, but would CPAN be an alternative as well?
> >>
> >> Other then that, how you are doing it makes sense to me.
> >>
> >> Dunno if that helped any.
> >>
> >> Carlos Meza
> >> @digitalr00ts
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Matthew Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I have a currently maintained Perl manifest that is required by an
> >>> application orphaned by vendor realignment.  The Perl package is
> >>> maintained in the RHEL6 and Fedora 23 lines but is not in the RHEL7
> >>> repositories.
> >>>
> >>> It does exist in the rpmforge repository, but only as a rh6 package.
> >>>
> >>> --> What is the magic incantation to reset the yum major version
> >>> number for a single yum/dnf run?
> >>>
> >>> The package is fully functional on 7 (I installed manually and tested)
> >>> but I would like to automate installation from puppet/chef.  I did get
> >>> it working by hard coding the couple dozen dependencies but looking at
> >>> the resulting code consider that approach unmaintainable.  Once
> >>> installed the packages are managed correctly by dnf.
> >>>
> >>> I have spent an undue amount of time online trying to unearth a
> >>> solution, has anyone run across this before?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for any thoughts,
> >>>
> >>> Matt
> >>>
> >>> % ssh oldserver
> >>> % cat /etc/redhat-release
> >>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)
> >>> % yum search perl-Net-SSH
> >>>  * rpmforge: mirror.chpc.utah.edu
> >>> ...
> >>> perl-Net-SSH.noarch : Perl extension for secure shell
> >>>
> >>> % ssh newserver
> >>> % cat /etc/redhat-release
> >>> CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
> >>> % yum search perl-Net-SSH --releasever=6
> >>> * rpmforge: mirror.chpc.utah.edu
> >>> ...
> >>> 'nada'
> >>>
> >>> ---------
> >>> Matthew Campbell
> >>> Storage and Cloud Strategy
> >>> Office of the CTO
> >>>
> >>> Kaiser Permanente
> >>> 99 S. Oakland
> >>> Pasadena, CA 91101
> >>>
> >>> 626-564-7228 (office)
> >>> 8-338-7228 (tie-line)
> >>> 818-314-9897 (mobile phone)
> >>> Green Center 3-North, 031W29
> >>> ---------
> >>> kp.org/thrive
> >>>
> >>
>
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