Posts tagged dnf
Use specific Vagrant version on Fedora
- 21 August 2022
Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machines locally with just a few commands and a single file. It is a good way to get started with infrastructure-as-code on your local machine. Vagrant is also shipped with Fedora to make it easier to install and use as it uses libvirt to manage the virtual machines running on Linux with kernel virtualization to provide virtual hardware. This works well until you also want to install Terraform from the HashiCorp repository and later you upgrade Vagrant to a newer version with a regular package update.
In the example above Vagrant fails to find libvirt to connect to KVM and manage the virtual machine. Multiple providers are available for Vagrant to use, but the one that is used is not the one that is installed on the machine or can be used. This is a known issue with Vagrant on Linux and does not use the system Ruby environment with the lirbary for libvirt. Downgrading to the version of Vagrant that is shipped with Fedora will fix this issue.
Using YUM history to see package changes
- 03 February 2019
When you install or update packages on your system, then changes may occur that were not expected. Recent security updates on a server and left Nagios in a failed state, but what exactly happened, and can it be traced back as yum-cron installs all required security updates? Luckily YUM keeps a history database of all actions and with yum history can you list all transactions.
As transaction 15 was the latest and only transaction before the defect occurred it is the one to look into. With yum history info the details of the transaction can be shown. It shows when and who triggered the transaction, but also with which version of RPM, YUM, and which plugins for YUM were used. Most importantly it also shows which package was updated with versions used and from which repository. This narrows the search down to the packages shown as updated and sees what they changed on the system.