Originally posted by: csonne

Hello,

After we made all our lpars "YUM" aware" we see one package that shows strange behavior:

AIX-rpm-7.2.2.15-8  and on an other lpar with exact the same level we see a different version after a "yum update"

even more strange behavior after running the  /usr/sbin/updtvpkg  commando the last number changed to -9 ?

see below:

 rpm -qa |grep AIX
AIX-rpm-7.2.2.15-8.ppc

 /usr/sbin/updtvpkg
Please wait...
[rpm -qa |grep AIX-rpm
AIX-rpm-7.2.2.15-9.ppc

Can anyone explains what this last number is? and why it behaves this way?

Thanks in advance, we like to get our lpars on the same level and therefor like to explain this behavior.

Greetings Christian Sonnemans.

Originally posted by: sangameshm

This is expected behavior.

AIX-rpm package is a virtual package which keeps aix provided libraries etc in a rpm database so that rpm packages which are dependent on aix library cab be installed.

for example. openssl library.

$ rpm -q AIX-rpm --provides | grep libcrypto
libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so)
libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so.0.9.8)
libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so.1.0.2)
libcrypto.a(libcrypto64.so)
libcrypto.a(libcrypto64.so.0.9.8)
libcrypto.a(libcrypto64.so.1.0.0)
libcrypto.so
libcrypto_compat.a(libcrypto.so)
libcrypto_compat.a(libcrypto.so.0.9.8)
libcrypto_compat.a(libcrypto64.so)
libcrypto_compat.a(libcrypto64.so.0.9.8)

And the version number is same as the AIX TL+SP. ie this version is same as bos.rte version.

Release number changes when we run updtvpkg command.  So Release number mayn't be same across the different lpars.

Thanks,

Sangamesh