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Martin Hope
user2857108
Asked: 2022-01-19 13:44:52 +0800 CST
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I'm trying to get PHP 7.4 installed on my RHEL 8 system with Puppet, but can't get the package declaration right to disable php and enable php:7.4 with dnf. The Puppet Package documentation doesn't describe well, and I wasn't able to learn anything from this post: Puppet 5.5.22, dnfmodule reset

Right now, Puppet installs 7.2, and then these commands are run manually to upgrade.

dnf module disable php
dnf module enable php:7.4
dnf upgrade php

How do I do this all with puppet?

puppet rhel8 dnf
Martin Hope
cen2rocky
Asked: 2021-10-08 05:10:44 +0800 CST
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With Rocky Linux 8.4 (clone of RHEL 8.4) in /etc/default/grub I have GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=false

A “dnf update” that included grub2-tools changed it back to GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true

Is there some way to prevent this from happening in future grub2-tools updates? Note that the update didn’t change other entries back to their default values. For example, it kept my GRUB_TIMEOUT=20

Thanks!

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Martin Hope
BitGen01100000
Asked: 2021-09-02 23:40:28 +0800 CST
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When running dnf upgrade it only shows the new version of a package about to be upgraded. But I would like to see what the currently installed version of the package is too. Without having to go look up the installed packages etc. Basically I would like to add a column to the upgrade/update list that gets shown when I get asked if it should continue or not.

Currently it looks like

Package         Arch        Version         Repository      Size

But I would like to add a column of Installed Version like this

Package         Arch        Installed Version       Version         Repository      Size

Is this possible to do in dnf at the moment or is it something that would have to be added to the code? Tried to google it but couldn't find anything about this.

Edit: Thought that I could give you a few reasons why this would be helpful, and I came up with this right of off my head. If you know more reasons please enlighten me!

  • That you can see what typ of upgrade your getting. Like if it is a Major/Minor/Patch. So you can be al little more prepared on what your getting yourself into when saying yes on the continuation question.
  • If you are managing multiple servers/computers and upgrade them, you can more easily see if they are on different versions to begin with. Which could mean that the update could impact differently.
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Martin Hope
tink
Asked: 2021-05-17 17:50:32 +0800 CST
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I've been trying to figure out how to convert

dnf module reset php
dnf module install php:remi-7.4

to a stanza in a puppet module for several hours without any success.

Has anyone figured out how to do that? The doco on the puppet website is somewhat lacking, shall we say.

puppet rhel8 dnf
Martin Hope
myNewAccount
Asked: 2020-03-31 19:26:23 +0800 CST
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In the dnf-automatic config file automatic.conf I see the following lines under the email section.

[email]
# The address to send email messages from.
email_from = [email protected]

# List of addresses to send messages to.
email_to = [email protected]

# Name of the host to connect to to send email messages.
email_host = mail.mailServer.com

How does dnf-automatic send an email without knowing the password of the sender [email protected]?

I don't see a spot to put the password. I must be missing something but I don't know what.

email-server centos8 dnf