Red Hat backports fixes and keep package versions as they are. At times, security scanners are not smart enough to know that. They’d complain the packages are out of date. Making it worse, apache 2.2 has reached EOL since 2018. And even though openssh is now on version 8.2, one will still find version 5.3 on EL6 systems. Upgrading EL is not an easy task like Ubuntu. One will most…
Let’s take a look at how to build a really simple Linux package. The most common package formats are definitely .deb and .rpm. One will find them on Debian-variants and Redhat-variants respectively. In the following examples, a package will be created and it will contain 1 script.The script depends on Python so I want the package management tool to handle that for me too. The script’s name is goldenRatio.sh and…