yum and yum-utls package for kiwi on latest openSUSE 15.4

[OM]

Hi guys,

I was trying to use kiwi on a lastest openSUSE 15.4 based machine but it seems that yum and yum-utils packages are no longer built. I also couldn't really find a good alternative on the OBS.

How do we go about building a yum based image using kiwi on openSUSE 15.4? Do we need to cater for the missing packages ourselves from now on?

Many thanks for your comments in advance.

[J. Mixer]

Hi,

I’ve been using openSUSE as the OS inside kiwi builds for years. I’ve always thought that openSUSE uses “zypper” as its package manager. It seems to be very zypper-centric. 

Regards,

J.

[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 4:48 AM OM <obaidm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I was trying to use kiwi on a lastest openSUSE 15.4 based machine but it seems that yum and yum-utils packages are no longer built. I also couldn't really find a good alternative on the OBS.
>
> How do we go about building a yum based image using kiwi on openSUSE 15.4? Do we need to cater for the missing packages ourselves from now on?
>

Please use DNF. It's available in all major distributions, and all
major RPM distributions support using it as the package manager now
(including yes, even openSUSE!).

Fedora and RHEL/CentOS use DNF as their package manager today.




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[OM]

I see, thanks for the tip.