RedHat introduced using modules in DNF on RHEL version 8 (and above). This opens very interesting new options, however, sometimes – a quick-n-dirty repo is needed. An example – for offline systems, a repo of already installed packages (on exactly similar system) is created for later use. This used to work well on RHEL version…
I was missing some bleeding-edge packages, and while I was able to find the RPM packages, I was unable to find the repo path. So, thanks to this post, I was able to use it. This will probably break my Linux, so I will use it in a test environment first.The repo file would look…
On most cases, when preparing a recovery server, you can just ‘tar’ the entire server’s contents and just move it, along with a short recipe on how to rebuild the original partition layout (software Raid? LVM? flat partition tables?), how to mount volumes in-place, how to extract the tar files into the right locations, and…
