<div dir="ltr">Oh, it is silently failing?! I missed that part. Sorry I can not offer more. That sounds frustrating.<div><br></div><div>Carlos Meza</div><div>@digitlalr00ts</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Matthew Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dvdmatt@gmail.com" target="_blank">dvdmatt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">CPAN is not recommended for Perl on RH based distros as dependency<br>
tracking is not handled properly. If you install through yum or dnf<br>
you won't have a future update cause incompatible versions to be<br>
installed.<br>
<br>
Also CPAN is not trivial to get to work properly, you end up spending<br>
a lot of hours monthly in build maintenance instead of application<br>
deployment. Stable packages from the repos are the way to go (at<br>
least as long as they are supported by RH :( ).<br>
<span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
Matt<br>
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</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Matthew Campbell <<a href="mailto:dvdmatt@gmail.com">dvdmatt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Thanks Carlos,<br>
><br>
> You are right that the package is in the EPEL repo, but I still have<br>
> the same problem: How do you ask RHEL7 to install a RHEL6 package?<br>
> It appears to be silently ignored.<br>
><br>
> Matt<br>
><br>
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> Matthew Campbell<br>
> Storage and Cloud Strategy<br>
> Office of the CTO<br>
><br>
> Kaiser Permanente<br>
> 99 S. Oakland<br>
> Pasadena, CA 91101<br>
><br>
> <a href="tel:626-564-7228" value="+16265647228">626-564-7228</a> (office)<br>
> 8-338-7228 (tie-line)<br>
> <a href="tel:818-314-9897" value="+18183149897">818-314-9897</a> (mobile phone)<br>
> Green Center 3-North, 031W29<br>
> ---------<br>
> <a href="http://kp.org/thrive" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kp.org/thrive</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Carlos Meza <<a href="mailto:Carlos@digitalr00ts.com">Carlos@digitalr00ts.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hey Matt,<br>
>><br>
>> The first thing that comes to mind is to use the EPEL repository. It does<br>
>> appear to be there,<br>
>> <a href="https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repoview/perl-Net-SSH.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repoview/perl-Net-SSH.html</a>.<br>
>><br>
>> I am not a Perl person, but would CPAN be an alternative as well?<br>
>><br>
>> Other then that, how you are doing it makes sense to me.<br>
>><br>
>> Dunno if that helped any.<br>
>><br>
>> Carlos Meza<br>
>> @digitalr00ts<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Matthew Campbell <<a href="mailto:dvdmatt@gmail.com">dvdmatt@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> I have a currently maintained Perl manifest that is required by an<br>
>>> application orphaned by vendor realignment. The Perl package is<br>
>>> maintained in the RHEL6 and Fedora 23 lines but is not in the RHEL7<br>
>>> repositories.<br>
>>><br>
>>> It does exist in the rpmforge repository, but only as a rh6 package.<br>
>>><br>
>>> --> What is the magic incantation to reset the yum major version<br>
>>> number for a single yum/dnf run?<br>
>>><br>
>>> The package is fully functional on 7 (I installed manually and tested)<br>
>>> but I would like to automate installation from puppet/chef. I did get<br>
>>> it working by hard coding the couple dozen dependencies but looking at<br>
>>> the resulting code consider that approach unmaintainable. Once<br>
>>> installed the packages are managed correctly by dnf.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I have spent an undue amount of time online trying to unearth a<br>
>>> solution, has anyone run across this before?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Thanks for any thoughts,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Matt<br>
>>><br>
>>> % ssh oldserver<br>
>>> % cat /etc/redhat-release<br>
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)<br>
>>> % yum search perl-Net-SSH<br>
>>> * rpmforge: <a href="http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mirror.chpc.utah.edu</a><br>
>>> ...<br>
>>> perl-Net-SSH.noarch : Perl extension for secure shell<br>
>>><br>
>>> % ssh newserver<br>
>>> % cat /etc/redhat-release<br>
>>> CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)<br>
>>> % yum search perl-Net-SSH --releasever=6<br>
>>> * rpmforge: <a href="http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mirror.chpc.utah.edu</a><br>
>>> ...<br>
>>> 'nada'<br>
>>><br>
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>>> Matthew Campbell<br>
>>> Storage and Cloud Strategy<br>
>>> Office of the CTO<br>
>>><br>
>>> Kaiser Permanente<br>
>>> 99 S. Oakland<br>
>>> Pasadena, CA 91101<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="tel:626-564-7228" value="+16265647228">626-564-7228</a> (office)<br>
>>> 8-338-7228 (tie-line)<br>
>>> <a href="tel:818-314-9897" value="+18183149897">818-314-9897</a> (mobile phone)<br>
>>> Green Center 3-North, 031W29<br>
>>> ---------<br>
>>> <a href="http://kp.org/thrive" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kp.org/thrive</a><br>
>>><br>
>><br>
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