On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 12:33 PM Jon Pruente <jprue...@riskanalytics.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:47 AM Larry Linder <larry.lin...@micro-controls.com> > wrote: >> >> It is interesting that there is a new "yum" as an RPM but do you need to >> install it to install the rest of the .rpm packages on the RHEL 8. RPM >> pile. >> This looks like the chicken / egg problem or can you install the RHEL >> rpms with the old yum? >> >> I have to admit that I did not read the fine print. > > > It's a newer package manager called dnf, not a new packaging format. dnf was > introduced in Fedora 18 in 2013, so over six years. It was made the full > replacement in Fedora 22. You can still call the yum command, it's just a > symlink to dnf. No worries. > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__fedoraproject.org_wiki_DNF-3Frd-3DDnf&d=DwIBaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=A5w_4HZYVV8wdM-CIyuTqojig2pf2OQLcPYEBVhfh-0&s=o0mKeNq2vLkettxtsh9-B5Q5OnQWA8YExrDIMTSvbW4&e= > > > On a RHEL 8 VM: > $ which yum > /usr/bin/yum > $ ls -l /usr/bin/yum > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 Oct 15 2018 /usr/bin/yum -> dnf-3
dns if not my friend. It includes "Suggests" and "Recommends" for other packages, which I personally think is really destabilizing and not backwards compatible. Fedora 32, way upstream, uses a distinct "zstd" compression format which is not backwards compatible, so taking apart the SRPM packages for backports is going to require chicanery. even on CentOS 8.
