I have CentOS 7 and CentOS 8 installed on 2 VMs. Both have epel enabled.
CentOS 7:
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core)
$ yum repolist
...
repo id repo name status
base/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Base 10070
epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64 13445
extras/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Extras 413
updates/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Updates 1127
repolist: 25055
CentOS 8:
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)
$ yum repolist
repo id repo name
AppStream CentOS-8 - AppStream
BaseOS CentOS-8 - Base
PowerTools CentOS-8 - PowerTools
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64
epel-modular Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64
extras CentOS-8 - Extras
On CentOS 7, cmake3 is available from the epel repo, and provides cmake version 3.17.
$ yum provides cmake3
...
cmake3-3.17.3-3.el7.x86_64 : Cross-platform make system
Repo : epel
On CentOS 8, cmake3 is available from the AppStream repo, and provides cmake version 3.11.
$ yum provides cmake3
...
cmake-3.11.4-7.el8.x86_64 : Cross-platform make system
Repo : @System
Matched from:
Provide : cmake3 = 3.11.4-7.el8
I tried to disable all repos except for epel, but it's still coming back with the one from AppStream (which seems counter intuitive to me - surely it should come back with nothing if I've disabled all the other repos?)
$ yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel info cmake
Last metadata expiration check: 0:21:06 ago on Fri 11 Sep 2020 09:44:08 AM UTC.
Installed Packages
Name : cmake
Version : 3.11.4
Release : 7.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 24 M
Source : cmake-3.11.4-7.el8.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : AppStream
Summary : Cross-platform make system
URL : http://www.cmake.org
License : BSD and MIT and zlib
Description : CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple
: platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates
: native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler
: environment of your choice. CMake is quite sophisticated: it is possible
: to support complex environments requiring system configuration, preprocessor
: generation, code generation, and template instantiation.
I searched on pkgs.org, and it certainly does seem that cmake-3.11 is the latest version available to CentOS 8.
Apart from building from source, is there any other way to obtain a newer version of cmake on CentOD 8?