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Using redhat before yum, meant visiting rpmfind.net and manually collecting what you needed. In some ways, RHEL is still like that, because popular packages ar
by ok123456 4y ago
Using redhat before yum, meant visiting rpmfind.net and manually collecting what you needed.
In some ways, RHEL is still like that, because popular packages are usually a major version or two behind if they're even there at all. You have to hunt down an EPEL that has whatever you need.
- ethbr0 4y agoYeah, I don't miss the old days. Like another poster though, I remember apt-get being decent while pre-yum RedHat was still pretty bad. But I also realize my perspective was that of a hobbyist, not an enterprise sysadmin who was probably upgrading to well-known versions through known paths.
- ok123456 4y agoI worked with sysadmins who used rpm based distros back then and their experience was basically mine: hunting down the right rpms that both satisfied the constraints and actually worked.