considering to move all our stuff from centos 6 to 8, I'm checking tools we use.
I saw in release doc that packages CVS/RCS providing '/usr/bin/ident' command are no more in centos 8
I can't find where a such command is right now ?
( I do need an official solution to use with yum install from inside a docker container )
Sorry, I'm afraid you are out of luck.
The ident command is part of the Revision Control System, aka RCS.
RCS used to be available in RHEL/Centos, but was dropped in RHEL 8 according to the RHEL 8.0.0 release notes:
Note that the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Revision Control System (RCS), available in RHEL 7, are not distributed with RHEL 8.
As far as I can see, there is no other RHEL package that contains ident either - not suprising, as it is probably only useful together with RCS.
You can probably install it manually some way, either by using an older or third-party package (but be careful about compatibility), or by building it yourself.
However, in the long run you should probably consider replacing your use of ident and RCS - it is ancient software, and will probably become more and more difficult to support in futures (as you can see by this problem).
Consider asking a new question about how to replace your use of RCS :-).
If you need rcs for centos 8, you can build the source rpm from Fedora 31.
Download, install any dependencies & the rpm build environment &
rpmbuild --rebuild rcs-5.9.4-12.fc31.src.rpm
Then install the rpm.
From https://www.webscalability.com/blog/2020/01/rcs-for-centos-rhel-8/
rpmfind shows a CentOS7 package for version rcs-5.9.0-5.el7.x86_64 here:
https://rpmfind.net/linux/centos/7.7.1908/os/x86_64/Packages/rcs-5.9.0-5.el7.x86_64.rpm
I downloaded this and was able to just do "yum localinstall "
Seems to work fine. YYMV.
Here is a workaround:
Locate a CentOS 7 system using the same CPU architecture as the CentOS 8 host you wish to install RCS on (usually 32 vs. 64 bit)
On the CentOS 7 system, run yumdownloader rcs. This should produce a file similar to rcs-5.9.0-5.el7.x86_64.rpm.
Copy the file created in step 2 to your CentOS 8 system
On your CentOS 8 system, as root run yum --nogpgcheck localinstall rcs-5.9.0-5.el7.x86_64.rpm, replacing rcs-5.9.0-5.el7.x86_64.rpm in this command with the name of the file you generated in step 2.
You should now have a working install of RCS on your CentOS 8 system. Also, since you installed it with yum, you have a record of its provenance should there ever be a question. For example,
$ dnf provides /usr/bin/rcs
Last metadata expiration check: 0:47:50 ago on Tue 28 Jan 2020 10:17:55 AM CST.
rcs-5.9.0-5.el7.x86_64 : Revision Control System (RCS) file version management tools
Repo : @System
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/bin/rcs
*as reported in https://superuser.com/a/1505177
To get RCS running on CentOS 8, perform the following:
Download the latest RCS source RPM from a Fedora mirror, like this:
wget https://fedora.mirror.garr.it/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/source/tree/Packages/r/rcs-5.9.4-14.fc33.src.rpm
Execute rpmbuild, specifying full path to the file:
rpmbuild --rebuild /Install/RCS/rcs-5.9.4-14.fc33.src.rpm
Install the CentOS RPM from the following folder:
/root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64
You should then have 3 files:
rcs-5.9.4-14.el8.x86_64.rpm
rcs-debuginfo-5.9.4-14.el8.x86_64.rpm
rcs-debugsource-5.9.4-14.el8.x86_64.rpm
You can just browse what's there at: "https://rpmfind.net/linux/epel/8/Everything/x86_64/Packages/r"
OR - just go to https://rpmfind.net and enter "rcs epel linux" and you'll see all your choices.
Below is what I used for a RHEL 8 system.
$> wget https://rpmfind.net/linux/epel/8/Everything/x86_64/Packages/r/rcs-5.10.1-3.el8.x86_64.rpm
$> sudo dnf install rcs-5.10.1-3.el8.x86_64.rpm
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