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RPM Package Manager is a package management system used primarily for GNU/Linux operating systems. It used the .rpm file format.

RPM Package Manager is a package management system. "RPM" refers to the .rpm file format, files in this format, software packaged in such files, and the package manager itself. RPM was intended primarily for GNU/Linux distributions. The file format is the baseline package format of the Linux Standard Base.

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Puppet package "ensure => latest" doesn't always work

I have a unique situation where the Puppet package ensure => latest directive only worked on some of my systems. Out of 30 servers, the packages updated properly on all but 4. I'm trying to get major versions of the software suite from < 9.40 to…
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YUM dependency issue even though library is installed

We build our own php and mysql packages from source, this one is for the php-5.4.10 release, and host these at our own repository. Let's call this package custom-php and custom-mysql(-libs & -server) When I do a yum install custom-php on a server,…
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Specifying a source in puppet doesn't seem to work

I have been attempting to create a manifest for installing postgres 9.1 using puppet on a Centos 5 server. I have been trying to adapt the instructions at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/YUM_Installation in order to achieve this and when I go…
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yum update, how to make rpm package updateable

need a link or tutorial on how to make an rpm package work with yum UPDATE. i have it and already works with yum INSTALL and yum ERASE, but is there somewhere info on how to make rpm package work when using yum UPDATE (what code to add, in what…
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Tools for maintaining yum repositories

Are there any tools for maintaining private yum repositories? Specifically, I'd like to: upload rpms and have them placed in the proper directory; indexes/metadata kept-up-to-date automatically; keep old versions around; reject invalid rpms (…
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How to find RAID configuration/level and RPM speed having only remote access to the server?

Having only remote access (no physical access), to a server (that is SSH), how do I (or may be is it possible): find out whether it is RAID configured or not? If it is RAID configured, whether it is software or hardware RAID? What level of RAID…
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Trouble removing package using Yum on CentOS7

Problem: Removing python-boto from the system and Yum. It appears to be no longer installed, but still appears in Yum. Tried: yum clean all; yum check; rpm -e --noscripts python-boto and rpm -e --noscripts python-boto.noarch but has not resolved.…
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Building an rpm file with a unique qualifier appended

I'm building RPMs in a continuous integration environment, and I need to distinguish between successive builds, but obviously the spec file does not get modified on each checkin. The spec file header contains something like Version: …
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How do I prevent yum from updating a particular RPM?

For certain reasons I have to keep a slightly older version of a particular RPM installed on my box (Fedora 11). The problem is that every time I do a package update yum (or one of its GUI equivalents) wants to update this RPM to the latest version,…
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replace or remove GPG signature on RPM

Is there a way to remove or replace an existing GPG signature on an RPM? I am placing a few obscure RPMs on an internal repo we use for supplementary rhel/centos packages. A few of those RPMs are already signed. I would like to remove those…
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Make kernel modules available that have been deactivated on Fedora

Edit: I turned Cristians answer into a script which does everything automatically: https://github.com/frans-fuerst/magic/blob/master/fedora-activate-can.sh I need some kernel modules which are available in the Linux source but deactivated on Fedora…
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Is it good practice to just copy Perl modules via RPM?

A few applications on our RHEL6 servers depend on a few Perl modules being present. I would like to add these Perl modules as part of the Kickstart process when turning up new hosts. As opposed to kicking off CPAN, which is slow, I decided to just…
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How to prevent installation of incompatible rpm packages

I have two rpm packages that should not get installed together. After googling around I assume there is no RequiresNot tag or something similar to specify incompatible packages in a specfile. What is the best solution to prevent installing them…
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How to make a RHEL repo static for a specific release

I have been working with CentOS for quite a while now and i got used to the way the repos are managed. Recently a new proprietary app required the company to get RHEL licences and the repo management has become a nightmare. Synchronizing the RHEL…
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yum update kernel without removing old?

When I yum update it wants to remove the oldest of the 3 kernel I have and upgrade to a new. Is it possible to get yum not to remove old kernels?
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