#342 AIX: tcl/tk/expect filesets conflict with rpm dependencies

[Li Cao]

Abstract:

On AIX 61F, the tcl/tk/expect are installed during the default BOS installation. And if we want to install xcat-dep rpms with instoss command, it will fail with the following error.

Details:

1. On 61F, the following filesets are installed during the default BOS installation, and they are all shipped in the AIX CDs now.
   bash-3.2# lslpp -l |grep tcl
   tcl.base 8.4.7.0 COMMITTED Binary executable files of Tcl
   tcl.man.en_US 8.4.7.0 COMMITTED Tcl man page documentation
   bash-3.2# lslpp -l |grep tk
   tk.base 8.4.7.0 COMMITTED Binary executable files of Tk
   tk.man.en_US 8.4.7.0 COMMITTED Tk man page documentation
   bash-3.2# lslpp -l |grep expect
   expect.base 5.42.1.0 COMMITTED Binary executable files of
   expect.man.en_US 5.42.1.0 COMMITTED Expect man page documentation

2. bash-3.2# /usr/sbin/updtvpkg
   Please wait...
   bash-3.2#

3. bash-3.2# ./instoss
   perl-DBI ##################################################
   package bash-3.2-1 is already installed
   perl-DBD-SQLite ##################################################
   tcl #################################################unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/tcl8.4: cpio: unlink failed - Not owner
   tk #################################################unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/tk8.4: cpio: unlink failed - Not owner
   expect #################################################unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/expect5.42: cpio: unlink failed - Not owner
   conserver ##################################################
   perl-Expect ##################################################
   perl-IO-Tty ##################################################
   perl-IO-Stty ##################################################
   perl-IO-Socket-SSL ##################################################
   perl-Net_SSLeay.pm ##################################################
   perl-Digest-MD5 ##################################################
   fping ##################################################
   openslp ##################################################
   perl-Crypt-SSLeay ##################################################
   perl-Net-Telnet ##################################################
   net-snmp ##################################################
   net-snmp-devel ##################################################
   net-snmp-perl ##################################################

[Bruce]

Cao Li, does the rest of the installation work ok? If so, I don't think this is priority 7. Maybe the standard priority 5.

[Li Cao]

Bruce, the rest of installation work is blocked by this issue. And the xcat-core could not be installed.

[Norm Nott]

What was the failure? When you run instxcat?

Is the 61F system still available? Could I log on to try to figure out how to fix this?

[Li Cao]

Norm, if we remove the tcl/tk/expect filesets manually, and then run /instoss. It will be installed successfully. But as you known, from this year, AIX61F begin to install the tcl/tk/expect filesets in default .
The new 61F OS installed by AIX61F Golden build include all these tcl/tk/expect filesets which are the default setting in installation spot. From any new 61F installed by Golden build can recreate this issue. If you need one, feel free to let me know.

Maybe there are two ways to solve it:
One way is : we will also support tcl/tk/expect filesets similar as rpms . Maybe we need add some code to support it.
The other way is: we will not support filesets . if yes, we should uninstall these tcl/tk/expect filesets firstly before installation via the installation scrips or letting the users uninstall them manually.
What is your opinion?

[Norm Nott]

If the AIX filesets are already installed we should not try to install the rpm packages. I tried running xCAT with the AIX installp filesets for tk, tcl and expect and things seemed to work correctly. One problem was that the xCAT -server package failed with a dependency error on expect - even though expect was clearly where it was supposed to be. I installed xCAT-server with "nodeps" and xCAT is working just fine.

I'll have to see if there is a better way to handle the dependency error but the nodeps fix will have to do for now.

The instxcat install script was changed to install the xCAT-server package with the nodeps option. The instoss install script was changed to check if the tk, tcl and expect filesets are already installed. (revision 3374)

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