How To Install git-subrepo on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-subrepo on CentOS 8.
What is git-subrepo
This git command “clones” an external git repo into a subdirectory of your repo. Later on, upstream changes can be pulled in, and local changes can be pushed back. Simple.
We can use yum or dnf to install git-subrepo on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install git-subrepo.
Install git-subrepo 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 git-subrepo using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install git-subrepo
Install git-subrepo 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 git-subrepo using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install git-subrepo
How To Uninstall git-subrepo on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the git-subrepo package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove git-subrepo
git-subrepo Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-subrepo
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-subrepo.d
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-subrepo.d/bash+.bash
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-subrepo.d/help-functions.bash
/usr/share/doc/git-subrepo
/usr/share/doc/git-subrepo/Changes
/usr/share/doc/git-subrepo/Intro.pod
/usr/share/doc/git-subrepo/ReadMe.pod
/usr/share/licenses/git-subrepo
/usr/share/licenses/git-subrepo/License
/usr/share/man/man1/git-subrepo.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-subrepo on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.