On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 8:02 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> 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. > This is not dns, but rpm for both things. dns is just enabling things that rpm has implemented. As for the zstd thing, it's being worked on. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bugzilla.redhat.com_show-5Fbug.cgi-3Fid-3D1715799&d=DwIFaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=IqO2jDwnXoZbezYROoT3Y1ybhh2FvPjv-ICak9Wllj4&s=kkTxu1L0NB4776YDAap-8oriWVD0nXJwFLQhde6Qp5o&e=
