On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 15:17, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
I am moving from a CentOS 6 VM to a CentOS 7 VM and two pieces of software I use seem to be missing:
RT (from Best Practical Solutions) -- an RPM for rt 3.1.13 was in EPel 6 and until recently, was also in EPel 7. It is not there now. Since it is just Perl code, I wonder if I can just install the el6 rpm on a CentOS 7 system.
Bugzilla -- I installed this from an RPM on my CentOS 6 server (bugzilla-3.4.14-2.el6.noarch). It is not in the EPel 7. It too is noarch (also Perl code) and wonder if I can just install the el6 rpm (if I can find it somewhere -- a yum search bugzill finds it, but it is not actually there in the repo.
Are there other solutions? (Installing RT "from source" is something of a bear, since there are lots of Perl module dependencies, that I would rather yum deal with if possible.)
My understanding for the reason it was removed from EPEL-7 was that the module dependencies grew to stuff which wouldn't work on EL7 for some reason. Several of those modules also contain C code so usually need to be recompiled to match.
For the simplest EPEL-7 fixes, I would take the packages from Fedora 18/19 and either recompile them or try to use them. That is more likely to work than EPEL-6 which is Fedora 11/12 based.