Originally posted by: christophe41

Hello,

We are building new AIX 7.2  logical partitions.

We are wondering if   all rpm open source packages   can be installed under the control of YUM   or   are there restrictions  ?

Maybe this question is stupid ...

I thank you very much for your help,

Have a nice day,

Christophe

Originally posted by: sangameshm

No such restrictions, all toolbox packages can be installed using YUM on AIX 7.2 machines.

Most of our packages built on AIX6.1 and can be installed on AIX 6.1 and higher versions.

Some packages like gcc which are OS specific are built for all available AIX releases.

YUM takes care of installing OS specific packages like gcc and other backward compatible packages.

Have a look at this README file to know more about the YUM repositories

https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/ezinstall/ppc/README-yum

Thanks,

Sangamesh

Originally posted by: Morten_Torstensen

Just be careful if you want to mix in RPMs from OTHER sources, like Bull Free software or Michael Perzl's repository. Funny compile option differences and other things can either break your install or cause strange hard-to-find problems.

Originally posted by: christophe41

Hello Morten,

Thank you for your message.

Do you strongly recommend not to mix   YUM IBM AIX TOOLBOX    and     RPMs from other sources ?

As we are building new AIX partitions, maybe we will have this problem again...

We have already met such troubles between   YUM IBM AIX TOOLBOX packages and    LPAR2RRD   packages...

They do not like each other very much !!!

Christophe 

Originally posted by: sanket

Yes it is recommended to not to mix packages from other sources. 

We try to be compatible but as these repo are managed by different people we can not guarantee that it will work.