Re: Dependencies required for offline installation

From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Date: Jul 5, 2016, 19:53 UTC
Message-ID: <1467748395.14863.15.camel@kaarsemaker.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAOkrQryazf=38eUMjcZzByjk=OVNfFGpFKnp5zpyML7yDKhW=A@mail.gmail.com>

On di, 2016-07-05 at 14:06 -0400, Kevin Paxton wrote:

> Thank you for the response.
> 
> I apologize. RHEL 6.5, not 5.5.

That's less ancient, but still not recommended. When using RHEL, try to stay with the latest point release so you get security updates.

> Would the same version be applicable to 6.5 as well as the
> dependencies that you mentioned?

Red hat actually ships a version of git with RHEL 6. So the version will be different (I believe it's a 1.7.something). The dependencies should be similar, if not the same.

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> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Dennis Kaarsemaker
> <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On di, 2016-07-05 at 07:45 -0400, Kevin Paxton wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I’m looking to install git on a separate network that is running
> > > Redhat 5.5.
> > That's ancient and unsupported. If you insist on using rhel 5, at
> > least
> > do 5.11 so you get the security updates.
> > 
> > > 
> > > I need to know what is the list of packages that I need to
> > > download to be able to install git-all? I plan on using git-svn
> > > to
> > > migrate an existing svn repo over to git as well. Svn version we
> > > have
> > > installed is 1.9.3.
> > There are rpms for git 1.8 in EPEL. git-all is probably overkill,
> > but
> > you'll need at least git, perl-Git, perl-Git-SVN and perl-Error.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Does the tarball contain all dependencies already? Should I go
> > > that
> > > route? Or should I try and find all the rpm's required?
> > The source tarball of git contains no dependencies. Also be aware
> > that
> > building git from source requires even more dependencies.
> > 
> > D.