Support for patchman-client on Oracle Linux 7.9 (EL7)

[Daniel41student]

Hi! I'm trying to install patchman-client on Oracle Linux 7.9, but I encounter a dependency error due to zstd compression, which is not supported by the default rpm version (4.11.x) on EL7 systems.

When installing patchman-client-3.0.13-1.noarch.rpm (sourced externally), I get:

error: Failed dependencies:
rpmlib(PayloadIsZstd) <= 5.4.18-1 is needed by patchman-client-3.0.13-1.noarch

• OS: Oracle Linux 7.9
• RPM version: 4.11.3
• Command used: rpm -ihv patchman-client.rpm

The official repo at https://repo.openbytes.ie/patchman/ only includes el8 and el9, with no el7 directory, suggesting that EL7 support might not be available in recent releases.

Could you please clarify:

1. Is there an official patchman-client RPM package compatible with Oracle Linux 7.9 (EL7), using compression like gzip or xz instead of zstd?
2. If not, has EL7 support been discontinued, or are there plans to release a compatible package, or should I build it from source?

Thank you for supporting this awesome tool!

[furlongm]

Looks like this is due to older rpm versions not supporting zstd compression.

#657 should fix that. I'll release a version with that change shortly.

The rpm only has a bash script and settings file, so downloading those and installing manually would also work.