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

[Carlos Meza]

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'
>
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