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I understand that scenario, having lived in it for many years. However, in practice, that doesn't require bug-for-bug compatibility. The proof of this is that
by CrLf 3y ago
I understand that scenario, having lived in it for many years. However, in practice, that doesn't require bug-for-bug compatibility.
The proof of this is that such software tends to run perfectly fine even across different RHEL major versions with just a few compatibility packages.
- neurostimulant 3y agoI don't use red hat based distro myself so I'm curious: if you want to run an old binary built for, say, RHEL from 5 years ago, can you run that binary on centos stream without dependency issue?
- CrLf 3y agoDon't know specifically about CentOS Stream, but I used to run things like IBM DB2, IBM TSM, and a few other stuff that was built for RHEL 4.x/5.x on RHEL 5.x/6.x. One thing that I like about RPM is how most packages specify dependencies based on contents, not on package name or version. So, even if a package changes name, if it still contains the required ".so.x.y.z" library, it will work. PS: I don't understand how people can complain about rpm/yum/dnf, 20 years ago it was already years ahead of what apt/deb is today.