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

[Matthew Campbell]

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

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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'
>>
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