"dns if not my friend." Nice!
On 9/5/19 10:02 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > 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. >
