Hello,
I recently migrated from yum to dnf on my AIX 7.2 system and I lost the use of the defined repositories which were in /opt/freeware/etc/yum/repos.d.
Files are still in then directory :
[root@CUWASCD1:/] # ll /opt/freeware/etc/yum/repos.d
total 12
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 256 Oct 6 2022 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root system 4096 Nov 17 10:46 ..
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 89 Oct 6 2022 Pro_BTP_AIX.repo
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 138 Nov 13 2020 Pro_BTP_commun.repo
But not listed by the repolist :
[root@CUWASCD1:/] # dnf repolist -v
Loaded plugins: changelog, config-manager, debug, generate_completion_cache, migrate, repoclosure, repodiff, repograph, repomanage, reposync
DNF version: 4.23.0
cachedir: /var/cache/dnf
Last metadata expiration check: 0:23:09 ago on Fri Jan 16 15:54:19 CET 2026.
Repo-id : AIX_Toolbox
Repo-name : AIX generic repository
Repo-revision : 1768414022
Repo-updated : Wed Jan 14 19:07:00 CET 2026
Repo-pkgs : 4,968
Repo-available-pkgs: 4,968
Repo-size : 17 G
Repo-baseurl : anonymous@public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/">https://anonymous:anonymous@public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/
Repo-expire : 172,800 second(s) (last: Fri Jan 16 15:54:10 CET 2026)
Repo-filename : /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
Repo-id : AIX_Toolbox_72
Repo-name : AIX 7.2 specific repository
Repo-revision : 1767950516
Repo-updated : Fri Jan 9 10:21:55 CET 2026
Repo-pkgs : 850
Repo-available-pkgs: 850
Repo-size : 13 G
Repo-baseurl : anonymous@public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc-7.2/">https://anonymous:anonymous@public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc-7.2/
Repo-expire : 172,800 second(s) (last: Fri Jan 16 15:54:19 CET 2026)
Repo-filename : /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
Repo-id : AIX_Toolbox_noarch
Repo-name : AIX noarch repository
Repo-revision : 1767950135
Repo-updated : Fri Jan 9 10:15:34 CET 2026
Repo-pkgs : 1,063
Repo-available-pkgs: 1,063
Repo-size : 1.8 G
Repo-baseurl : anonymous@public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/noarch/">https://anonymous:anonymous@public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/noarch/
Repo-expire : 172,800 second(s) (last: Fri Jan 16 15:54:16 CET 2026)
Repo-filename : /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
Total packages: 6,881
I tried to move the repos.d directory into /opt/freeware/etc/dnf but it changed nothing.
How can I make them taken in account again ?
Regards,
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Marc Baguelin
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