Good afternoon,

I have setup a repository on a RedHat server, containing all the AIX DNF RPMs.

AIX can see the repos, but when I try to install something, it fails with:

  Cannot download zsh/zsh-5.8-2.aix7.1.ppc.rpm: All mirrors were tried

The problem appears to be that it prepends the url with the base package name "zsh". Where does this come from? I have looked in all the config file I can find.

Regards,

Henrik Morsing

Henrik, I didn't even know that this was possible, but it is exactly what I'd like to be able to do. Do you have a procedure for configuring dnf on the client machines to point them to your "private" repository? Also, must the repository be a Linux machine?

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Mackey Morgan

Original Message:
Sent: Wed October 04, 2023 11:16 AM
From: Henrik Morsing
Subject: DNF repository setup

Good afternoon,

I have setup a repository on a RedHat server, containing all the AIX DNF RPMs.

AIX can see the repos, but when I try to install something, it fails with:

  Cannot download zsh/zsh-5.8-2.aix7.1.ppc.rpm: All mirrors were tried

The problem appears to be that it prepends the url with the base package name "zsh". Where does this come from? I have looked in all the config file I can find.

Regards,

Henrik Morsing

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Henrik Morsing
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@Henrik Morsing, can you share your dnf.conf with your repo definitions?

@Mackey Morgan, it is common to use an AIX nimserver to host repositorys. You can use reposync to mirror everything from the internet to your local setup and host the repos via httpd webserver on your nimserver.

This is how our dnf.conf looks like:

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Niklas
System Engineer UNIX and Linux on Power

Original Message:
Sent: Thu October 05, 2023 10:26 AM
From: Mackey Morgan
Subject: DNF repository setup

Henrik, I didn't even know that this was possible, but it is exactly what I'd like to be able to do. Do you have a procedure for configuring dnf on the client machines to point them to your "private" repository? Also, must the repository be a Linux machine?

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Mackey Morgan

Original Message:
Sent: Wed October 04, 2023 11:16 AM
From: Henrik Morsing
Subject: DNF repository setup

Good afternoon,

I have setup a repository on a RedHat server, containing all the AIX DNF RPMs.

AIX can see the repos, but when I try to install something, it fails with:

  Cannot download zsh/zsh-5.8-2.aix7.1.ppc.rpm: All mirrors were tried

The problem appears to be that it prepends the url with the base package name "zsh". Where does this come from? I have looked in all the config file I can find.

Regards,

Henrik Morsing

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Henrik Morsing
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Good afternoon,

I have setup a repository on a RedHat server, containing all the AIX DNF RPMs.

AIX can see the repos, but when I try to install something, it fails with:

  Cannot download zsh/zsh-5.8-2.aix7.1.ppc.rpm: All mirrors were tried

The problem appears to be that it prepends the url with the base package name "zsh". Where does this come from? I have looked in all the config file I can find.

Regards,

Henrik Morsing

Hi Henrik,

You can verify the permission of zsh path.

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SANGAMESH

Original Message:
Sent: Wed October 04, 2023 11:16 AM
From: Henrik Morsing
Subject: DNF repository setup

Good afternoon,

I have setup a repository on a RedHat server, containing all the AIX DNF RPMs.

AIX can see the repos, but when I try to install something, it fails with:

  Cannot download zsh/zsh-5.8-2.aix7.1.ppc.rpm: All mirrors were tried

The problem appears to be that it prepends the url with the base package name "zsh". Where does this come from? I have looked in all the config file I can find.

Regards,

Henrik Morsing

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Henrik Morsing
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Good afternoon,

I have setup a repository on a RedHat server, containing all the AIX DNF RPMs.

AIX can see the repos, but when I try to install something, it fails with:

  Cannot download zsh/zsh-5.8-2.aix7.1.ppc.rpm: All mirrors were tried

The problem appears to be that it prepends the url with the base package name "zsh". Where does this come from? I have looked in all the config file I can find.

Regards,

Henrik Morsing

Anyone? Or do I really need to dig into the code to see why it is adding this?

Good afternoon,

I have setup a repository on a RedHat server, containing all the AIX DNF RPMs.

AIX can see the repos, but when I try to install something, it fails with:

  Cannot download zsh/zsh-5.8-2.aix7.1.ppc.rpm: All mirrors were tried

The problem appears to be that it prepends the url with the base package name "zsh". Where does this come from? I have looked in all the config file I can find.

Regards,

Henrik Morsing

It could be a problem with directory structure given to createrepo and how it is configured in the repo configuration file. 
For Toolbox, the createrepo is run on the directory structure ../../RPMS/ppc. This directory in turn contains package specific directories like zsh which actually contains the zsh rpms. So the repodata created by createrepo now has the location as zsh/zsh....rpm. And the baseurl in the repo conf file will have ../../RPMS/ppc. 

You need to check in the above angle how the repo is setup in the redhat server. Ie., on what directory the createrepo command is ran and whether it matches the baseurl in the repo conf file.

Anyone? Or do I really need to dig into the code to see why it is adding this?

Good afternoon,

I have setup a repository on a RedHat server, containing all the AIX DNF RPMs.

AIX can see the repos, but when I try to install something, it fails with:

  Cannot download zsh/zsh-5.8-2.aix7.1.ppc.rpm: All mirrors were tried

The problem appears to be that it prepends the url with the base package name "zsh". Where does this come from? I have looked in all the config file I can find.

Regards,

Henrik Morsing