How To Install fedora-packager on CentOS 8

fedora-packager is Tools for setting up a fedora maintainer environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fedora-packager on CentOS 8.

What is fedora-packager

Set of utilities useful for a fedora packager in setting up their environment.

We can use yum or dnf to install fedora-packager on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fedora-packager.

Install fedora-packager on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install fedora-packager using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fedora-packager

Install fedora-packager on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install fedora-packager using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fedora-packager

How To Uninstall fedora-packager on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fedora-packager package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fedora-packager

fedora-packager Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/koji.conf.d/fedora.conf
/etc/koji.conf.d/s390.conf
/etc/koji.conf.d/stg.conf
/etc/krb5.conf.d/fedoraproject_org
/etc/krb5.conf.d/stg_fedoraproject_org
/etc/pki/ipa/fedoraproject_ipa_ca.crt
/etc/pki/ipa/stg_fedoraproject_ipa_ca.crt
/usr/bin/fedora-getsvn
/usr/bin/fkinit
/usr/bin/pkgname
/usr/bin/rpmbuild-md5
/usr/bin/s390-koji
/usr/bin/stg-koji
/usr/share/doc/fedora-packager
/usr/share/doc/fedora-packager/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fedora-packager/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fedora-packager/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/fedora-packager
/usr/share/licenses/fedora-packager/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fedora-packager on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.