Originally posted by: gcorneau

Howdy,

Trying to "yum update" to the latest and hitting a requisite issue from the Linux Toolbox for AIX.  I did do a "yum clean all" as an attempt to debug.

yum update glib2
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glib2.ppc 0:2.14.6-2 will be updated
---> Package glib2.ppc 0:2.48.0-1 will be an update
--> Processing Dependency: libffi >= 3.0.12-1 for package: glib2-2.48.0-1.ppc
--> Processing Dependency: libffi.a(libffi.so.6) for package: glib2-2.48.0-1.ppc
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: glib2-2.48.0-1.ppc (AIX_Toolbox)
           Requires: libffi.a(libffi.so.6)
Error: Package: glib2-2.48.0-1.ppc (AIX_Toolbox)
           Requires: libffi >= 3.0.12-1
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

Turns out, the yum was outdated (v3.4.3-1 versus 3.4.3-3).  I was confused by the fact that the yum_bundle_v1.tar was changed but the version number was not updated.  Any chance on updating the file with a new name (v1a or v2 or something else so that downloaders can know the difference)?

Originally posted by: sangameshm

Hi,

Actually the change in yum from 3.4.3-1 to 3.4.3-3 was just a minor change, we didn't really change the yum version number.

With yum-3.4.3-3 we added 3 separate repositories.  You can find more details on this in YUM README file here https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/ezinstall/ppc/README-yum.

updating yum to 3.4..3-3 should slow the error you are facing.

Thanks,

Sangamesh

Originally posted by: gcorneau

Yeah, it did fix it.
I was referring to the version number on the yum_bundle_v1.tar file.  I was just thinking that if the file was changed (as it was in October) the name should have had incremented to v2 or something else to distinguish as having been updated.

Originally posted by: sangameshm

As i mentioned, we didn't update the any package from yum_bundle_v1.tar,  we added some fixes to yum itself and updated the yum README file to make users aware of the change.

Once we update any of the package from the bundle then we will change the yum bundle version.

Thanks,

Sangamesh