AIX Open Source

Hi!

I recently installed dnf on several AIX 7.2 servers using the power_aix_bootstrap ansible role as follows:

 - import_role:
      name: power_aix_bootstrap
    vars:
      pkgtype: "dnf"
      download_dir: "~"
      target_dir: "/tmp/.ansible.cpdir"
    environment:
      https_proxy: http://{{ AIX_Package_Proxy_User }}:{{ AIX_Package_Proxy_Pass }}@osde01proxy:8080/

In a second step we add the the proxy configuration to the dnf.conf.  And in it seems to work.  From the command line I have no issues running dnf. For example here a screenshot of dnf installing sudo.

However, what does not work is installing packages via the dnf ansible module. I tried the following:

• name: Install the latest version of our standard tools
    ansible.builtin.dnf:
      conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
      name:
        - sudo
      state: latest
    environment:
      PATH: /opt/freeware/bin:{{ ansible_env.PATH }}

That results in the following:

t seems, that python can't import the dnf module:

I found DNF failed to run on AIX 7.2 , installing libggc8 and libstdc++8 didn't solve my problems. I see in the failed ansible output, recommends to verify the output of dump -Tv, but that doesn't tell me much. 

Any ideas on how to solve that problem?

Best regards,

  Alexander

Ah, the duelling python problem. dnf requires the ansible_interpreter to be /opt/freeware/bin/python3. So everytime you call the dnf module, you have to tell it which interpreter to use. In this exampe using your code, I've added a conditional variable which uses the release of AIX to decide which one to point to.

name: Install the latest version of our standard tools    ansible.builtin.dnf:      conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf      name:        - sudo      state: latest    vars:      ansible_python_interpreter: "{{ '/opt/freeware/bin/python3' if ansible_distribution_version == '7.3' else '/opt/freeware/libexec/python3' }}"

You can check if your python has the dnf module like this:

root@aix73host# /usr/bin/python3Python 3.9.18 (main, Sep 19 2023, 04:57:07)[GCC 10.3.0] on aixType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import dnfTraceback (most recent all last):  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dnf'>>> <ctrl-d> to exitroot@aix73host# /opt/freeware/bin/python3Python 3.9.18 (main, Sep 19 2023, 04:57:07)[GCC 10.3.0] on aixType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import dnf>>> <ctrl-d> to exit

Hi!

I recently installed dnf on several AIX 7.2 servers using the power_aix_bootstrap ansible role as follows:

 - import_role:
      name: power_aix_bootstrap
    vars:
      pkgtype: "dnf"
      download_dir: "~"
      target_dir: "/tmp/.ansible.cpdir"
    environment:
      https_proxy: http://{{ AIX_Package_Proxy_User }}:{{ AIX_Package_Proxy_Pass }}@osde01proxy:8080/

In a second step we add the the proxy configuration to the dnf.conf.  And in it seems to work.  From the command line I have no issues running dnf. For example here a screenshot of dnf installing sudo.

However, what does not work is installing packages via the dnf ansible module. I tried the following:

• name: Install the latest version of our standard tools
    ansible.builtin.dnf:
      conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
      name:
        - sudo
      state: latest
    environment:
      PATH: /opt/freeware/bin:{{ ansible_env.PATH }}

That results in the following:

t seems, that python can't import the dnf module:

I found DNF failed to run on AIX 7.2 , installing libggc8 and libstdc++8 didn't solve my problems. I see in the failed ansible output, recommends to verify the output of dump -Tv, but that doesn't tell me much. 

Any ideas on how to solve that problem?

Best regards,

  Alexander

Thanks for the hint!

While I was about to reply, that we are using AIX 7.2 and have no other python intepreter installed (yet) and we do set the python interpreter to the one in /opt/freeware we seem to run in the 64/32 bit python issue also discussed here before.

So, for AIX 7.2 setting the python inteprter to /opt/freeware/bin/python3 will use the 64 bit pythoin version. Using /opt/freeware/libexec/python3 sets it to the 32 bit version, which does work with the dnf modul!

So this one doesn't work:

But this one does:

Many thanks again!

Ah, the duelling python problem. dnf requires the ansible_interpreter to be /opt/freeware/bin/python3. So everytime you call the dnf module, you have to tell it which interpreter to use. In this exampe using your code, I've added a conditional variable which uses the release of AIX to decide which one to point to.

name: Install the latest version of our standard tools    ansible.builtin.dnf:      conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf      name:        - sudo      state: latest    vars:      ansible_python_interpreter: "{{ '/opt/freeware/bin/python3' if ansible_distribution_version == '7.3' else '/opt/freeware/libexec/python3' }}"

You can check if your python has the dnf module like this:

root@aix73host# /usr/bin/python3Python 3.9.18 (main, Sep 19 2023, 04:57:07)[GCC 10.3.0] on aixType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import dnfTraceback (most recent all last):  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dnf'>>> <ctrl-d> to exitroot@aix73host# /opt/freeware/bin/python3Python 3.9.18 (main, Sep 19 2023, 04:57:07)[GCC 10.3.0] on aixType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import dnf>>> <ctrl-d> to exit

Hi!

I recently installed dnf on several AIX 7.2 servers using the power_aix_bootstrap ansible role as follows:

 - import_role:
      name: power_aix_bootstrap
    vars:
      pkgtype: "dnf"
      download_dir: "~"
      target_dir: "/tmp/.ansible.cpdir"
    environment:
      https_proxy: http://{{ AIX_Package_Proxy_User }}:{{ AIX_Package_Proxy_Pass }}@osde01proxy:8080/

In a second step we add the the proxy configuration to the dnf.conf.  And in it seems to work.  From the command line I have no issues running dnf. For example here a screenshot of dnf installing sudo.

However, what does not work is installing packages via the dnf ansible module. I tried the following:

• name: Install the latest version of our standard tools
    ansible.builtin.dnf:
      conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
      name:
        - sudo
      state: latest
    environment:
      PATH: /opt/freeware/bin:{{ ansible_env.PATH }}

That results in the following:

t seems, that python can't import the dnf module:

I found DNF failed to run on AIX 7.2 , installing libggc8 and libstdc++8 didn't solve my problems. I see in the failed ansible output, recommends to verify the output of dump -Tv, but that doesn't tell me much. 

Any ideas on how to solve that problem?

Best regards,

  Alexander

Hello @Alexander Reichle-Schmehl ! CC: @Andrey Klyachkin (because you helped me as well with   https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/discussion/ansible-and-dnf , thanks for that!)

Thanks for the information, I´ve had the same issue and solved it via the libexec entry.

What still doesn´t work is actually installing a package, because I get:

   - name:  If not installed or upgradeable, install or upgrade, even with dependencies!
     ansible.builtin.dnf:
       name: rsync
       conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
       update_only: false
       validate_certs: false
       state: latest
       update_cache: true

-->

failed: {
    "changed": false,
    "failures": [
        "No package rsync available."
    ],
    "msg": "Failed to install some of the specified packages",
    "rc": 1,
    "results": []
}

When I do it via ansible.builtin.shell it works:

done | stdout: Last metadata expiration check: 0:19:53 ago on Tue Dec  5 13:09:25 MET 2023.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package         Architecture  Version              Repository             Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 rsync           ppc           3.2.7-1              AIX_Toolbox           867 k
Installing dependencies:
 lz4             ppc           1.9.3-1              AIX_Toolbox           390 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  2 Packages

Total download size: 1.2 M
Installed size: 3.3 M
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): lz4-1.9.3-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm               273 kB/s | 390 kB     00:01    
(2/2): rsync-3.2.7-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm             469 kB/s | 867 kB     00:01    
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                           678 kB/s | 1.2 MB     00:01     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                        1/1 
  Installing       : lz4-1.9.3-1.ppc                                        1/2 
  Installing       : rsync-3.2.7-1.ppc                                      2/2 
  Running scriptlet: rsync-3.2.7-1.ppc                                      2/2 
rsync version effective # 3.2.7 default rsync daemon config is now /opt/freeware/etc/rsyncd.conf

  Verifying        : lz4-1.9.3-1.ppc                                        1/2 
  Verifying        : rsync-3.2.7-1.ppc                                      2/2 

Installed:
  rsync-3.2.7-1.ppc                       lz4-1.9.3-1.ppc                      

Complete!


What am I doing wrong :D ?

Thanks,

with kind regards,

Steve

Thanks for the hint!

While I was about to reply, that we are using AIX 7.2 and have no other python intepreter installed (yet) and we do set the python interpreter to the one in /opt/freeware we seem to run in the 64/32 bit python issue also discussed here before.

So, for AIX 7.2 setting the python inteprter to /opt/freeware/bin/python3 will use the 64 bit pythoin version. Using /opt/freeware/libexec/python3 sets it to the 32 bit version, which does work with the dnf modul!

So this one doesn't work:

But this one does:

Many thanks again!

Ah, the duelling python problem. dnf requires the ansible_interpreter to be /opt/freeware/bin/python3. So everytime you call the dnf module, you have to tell it which interpreter to use. In this exampe using your code, I've added a conditional variable which uses the release of AIX to decide which one to point to.

name: Install the latest version of our standard tools    ansible.builtin.dnf:      conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf      name:        - sudo      state: latest    vars:      ansible_python_interpreter: "{{ '/opt/freeware/bin/python3' if ansible_distribution_version == '7.3' else '/opt/freeware/libexec/python3' }}"

You can check if your python has the dnf module like this:

root@aix73host# /usr/bin/python3Python 3.9.18 (main, Sep 19 2023, 04:57:07)[GCC 10.3.0] on aixType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import dnfTraceback (most recent all last):  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dnf'>>> <ctrl-d> to exitroot@aix73host# /opt/freeware/bin/python3Python 3.9.18 (main, Sep 19 2023, 04:57:07)[GCC 10.3.0] on aixType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import dnf>>> <ctrl-d> to exit

Hi!

I recently installed dnf on several AIX 7.2 servers using the power_aix_bootstrap ansible role as follows:

 - import_role:
      name: power_aix_bootstrap
    vars:
      pkgtype: "dnf"
      download_dir: "~"
      target_dir: "/tmp/.ansible.cpdir"
    environment:
      https_proxy: http://{{ AIX_Package_Proxy_User }}:{{ AIX_Package_Proxy_Pass }}@osde01proxy:8080/

In a second step we add the the proxy configuration to the dnf.conf.  And in it seems to work.  From the command line I have no issues running dnf. For example here a screenshot of dnf installing sudo.

However, what does not work is installing packages via the dnf ansible module. I tried the following:

• name: Install the latest version of our standard tools
    ansible.builtin.dnf:
      conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
      name:
        - sudo
      state: latest
    environment:
      PATH: /opt/freeware/bin:{{ ansible_env.PATH }}

That results in the following:

t seems, that python can't import the dnf module:

I found DNF failed to run on AIX 7.2 , installing libggc8 and libstdc++8 didn't solve my problems. I see in the failed ansible output, recommends to verify the output of dump -Tv, but that doesn't tell me much. 

Any ideas on how to solve that problem?

Best regards,

  Alexander

Hello!

Answering myself here, I´ve now found another posting where my problem is described:

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/discussion/issue-with-dnf-and-python-and-ansible

It seems that so far no Issue has been raised on the Ansible Github page, I´ll have a look how to do that :) but also CC: to @Christophe Gehin and @Ayappan P just in case!

Thanks,

With kind regards,

Steve

Hello @Alexander Reichle-Schmehl ! CC: @Andrey Klyachkin (because you helped me as well with   https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/discussion/ansible-and-dnf , thanks for that!)

Thanks for the information, I´ve had the same issue and solved it via the libexec entry.

What still doesn´t work is actually installing a package, because I get:

   - name:  If not installed or upgradeable, install or upgrade, even with dependencies!
     ansible.builtin.dnf:
       name: rsync
       conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
       update_only: false
       validate_certs: false
       state: latest
       update_cache: true

-->

failed: {
    "changed": false,
    "failures": [
        "No package rsync available."
    ],
    "msg": "Failed to install some of the specified packages",
    "rc": 1,
    "results": []
}

When I do it via ansible.builtin.shell it works:

done | stdout: Last metadata expiration check: 0:19:53 ago on Tue Dec  5 13:09:25 MET 2023.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package         Architecture  Version              Repository             Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 rsync           ppc           3.2.7-1              AIX_Toolbox           867 k
Installing dependencies:
 lz4             ppc           1.9.3-1              AIX_Toolbox           390 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  2 Packages

Total download size: 1.2 M
Installed size: 3.3 M
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): lz4-1.9.3-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm               273 kB/s | 390 kB     00:01    
(2/2): rsync-3.2.7-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm             469 kB/s | 867 kB     00:01    
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                           678 kB/s | 1.2 MB     00:01     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                        1/1 
  Installing       : lz4-1.9.3-1.ppc                                        1/2 
  Installing       : rsync-3.2.7-1.ppc                                      2/2 
  Running scriptlet: rsync-3.2.7-1.ppc                                      2/2 
rsync version effective # 3.2.7 default rsync daemon config is now /opt/freeware/etc/rsyncd.conf

  Verifying        : lz4-1.9.3-1.ppc                                        1/2 
  Verifying        : rsync-3.2.7-1.ppc                                      2/2 

Installed:
  rsync-3.2.7-1.ppc                       lz4-1.9.3-1.ppc                      

Complete!


What am I doing wrong :D ?

Thanks,

with kind regards,

Steve

Thanks for the hint!

While I was about to reply, that we are using AIX 7.2 and have no other python intepreter installed (yet) and we do set the python interpreter to the one in /opt/freeware we seem to run in the 64/32 bit python issue also discussed here before.

So, for AIX 7.2 setting the python inteprter to /opt/freeware/bin/python3 will use the 64 bit pythoin version. Using /opt/freeware/libexec/python3 sets it to the 32 bit version, which does work with the dnf modul!

So this one doesn't work:

But this one does:

Many thanks again!

Ah, the duelling python problem. dnf requires the ansible_interpreter to be /opt/freeware/bin/python3. So everytime you call the dnf module, you have to tell it which interpreter to use. In this exampe using your code, I've added a conditional variable which uses the release of AIX to decide which one to point to.

name: Install the latest version of our standard tools    ansible.builtin.dnf:      conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf      name:        - sudo      state: latest    vars:      ansible_python_interpreter: "{{ '/opt/freeware/bin/python3' if ansible_distribution_version == '7.3' else '/opt/freeware/libexec/python3' }}"

You can check if your python has the dnf module like this:

root@aix73host# /usr/bin/python3Python 3.9.18 (main, Sep 19 2023, 04:57:07)[GCC 10.3.0] on aixType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import dnfTraceback (most recent all last):  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dnf'>>> <ctrl-d> to exitroot@aix73host# /opt/freeware/bin/python3Python 3.9.18 (main, Sep 19 2023, 04:57:07)[GCC 10.3.0] on aixType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import dnf>>> <ctrl-d> to exit

Hi!

I recently installed dnf on several AIX 7.2 servers using the power_aix_bootstrap ansible role as follows:

 - import_role:
      name: power_aix_bootstrap
    vars:
      pkgtype: "dnf"
      download_dir: "~"
      target_dir: "/tmp/.ansible.cpdir"
    environment:
      https_proxy: http://{{ AIX_Package_Proxy_User }}:{{ AIX_Package_Proxy_Pass }}@osde01proxy:8080/

In a second step we add the the proxy configuration to the dnf.conf.  And in it seems to work.  From the command line I have no issues running dnf. For example here a screenshot of dnf installing sudo.

However, what does not work is installing packages via the dnf ansible module. I tried the following:

• name: Install the latest version of our standard tools
    ansible.builtin.dnf:
      conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
      name:
        - sudo
      state: latest
    environment:
      PATH: /opt/freeware/bin:{{ ansible_env.PATH }}

That results in the following:

t seems, that python can't import the dnf module:

I found DNF failed to run on AIX 7.2 , installing libggc8 and libstdc++8 didn't solve my problems. I see in the failed ansible output, recommends to verify the output of dump -Tv, but that doesn't tell me much. 

Any ideas on how to solve that problem?

Best regards,

  Alexander

Hello!

I´ve opened https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82365 for that!

Ciao,

Steve

Hello!

Answering myself here, I´ve now found another posting where my problem is described:

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/discussion/issue-with-dnf-and-python-and-ansible

It seems that so far no Issue has been raised on the Ansible Github page, I´ll have a look how to do that :) but also CC: to @Christophe Gehin and @Ayappan P just in case!

Thanks,

With kind regards,

Steve

Hello @Alexander Reichle-Schmehl ! CC: @Andrey Klyachkin (because you helped me as well with   https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/discussion/ansible-and-dnf , thanks for that!)

Thanks for the information, I´ve had the same issue and solved it via the libexec entry.

What still doesn´t work is actually installing a package, because I get:

   - name:  If not installed or upgradeable, install or upgrade, even with dependencies!
     ansible.builtin.dnf:
       name: rsync
       conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
       update_only: false
       validate_certs: false
       state: latest
       update_cache: true

-->

failed: {
    "changed": false,
    "failures": [
        "No package rsync available."
    ],
    "msg": "Failed to install some of the specified packages",
    "rc": 1,
    "results": []
}

When I do it via ansible.builtin.shell it works:

done | stdout: Last metadata expiration check: 0:19:53 ago on Tue Dec  5 13:09:25 MET 2023.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package         Architecture  Version              Repository             Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 rsync           ppc           3.2.7-1              AIX_Toolbox           867 k
Installing dependencies:
 lz4             ppc           1.9.3-1              AIX_Toolbox           390 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  2 Packages

Total download size: 1.2 M
Installed size: 3.3 M
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): lz4-1.9.3-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm               273 kB/s | 390 kB     00:01    
(2/2): rsync-3.2.7-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm             469 kB/s | 867 kB     00:01    
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                           678 kB/s | 1.2 MB     00:01     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                        1/1 
  Installing       : lz4-1.9.3-1.ppc                                        1/2 
  Installing       : rsync-3.2.7-1.ppc                                      2/2 
  Running scriptlet: rsync-3.2.7-1.ppc                                      2/2 
rsync version effective # 3.2.7 default rsync daemon config is now /opt/freeware/etc/rsyncd.conf

  Verifying        : lz4-1.9.3-1.ppc                                        1/2 
  Verifying        : rsync-3.2.7-1.ppc                                      2/2 

Installed:
  rsync-3.2.7-1.ppc                       lz4-1.9.3-1.ppc                      

Complete!


What am I doing wrong :D ?

Thanks,

with kind regards,

Steve

Thanks for the hint!

While I was about to reply, that we are using AIX 7.2 and have no other python intepreter installed (yet) and we do set the python interpreter to the one in /opt/freeware we seem to run in the 64/32 bit python issue also discussed here before.

So, for AIX 7.2 setting the python inteprter to /opt/freeware/bin/python3 will use the 64 bit pythoin version. Using /opt/freeware/libexec/python3 sets it to the 32 bit version, which does work with the dnf modul!

So this one doesn't work:

But this one does:

Many thanks again!

Ah, the duelling python problem. dnf requires the ansible_interpreter to be /opt/freeware/bin/python3. So everytime you call the dnf module, you have to tell it which interpreter to use. In this exampe using your code, I've added a conditional variable which uses the release of AIX to decide which one to point to.

name: Install the latest version of our standard tools    ansible.builtin.dnf:      conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf      name:        - sudo      state: latest    vars:      ansible_python_interpreter: "{{ '/opt/freeware/bin/python3' if ansible_distribution_version == '7.3' else '/opt/freeware/libexec/python3' }}"

You can check if your python has the dnf module like this:

root@aix73host# /usr/bin/python3Python 3.9.18 (main, Sep 19 2023, 04:57:07)[GCC 10.3.0] on aixType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import dnfTraceback (most recent all last):  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dnf'>>> <ctrl-d> to exitroot@aix73host# /opt/freeware/bin/python3Python 3.9.18 (main, Sep 19 2023, 04:57:07)[GCC 10.3.0] on aixType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import dnf>>> <ctrl-d> to exit

Hi!

I recently installed dnf on several AIX 7.2 servers using the power_aix_bootstrap ansible role as follows:

 - import_role:
      name: power_aix_bootstrap
    vars:
      pkgtype: "dnf"
      download_dir: "~"
      target_dir: "/tmp/.ansible.cpdir"
    environment:
      https_proxy: http://{{ AIX_Package_Proxy_User }}:{{ AIX_Package_Proxy_Pass }}@osde01proxy:8080/

In a second step we add the the proxy configuration to the dnf.conf.  And in it seems to work.  From the command line I have no issues running dnf. For example here a screenshot of dnf installing sudo.

However, what does not work is installing packages via the dnf ansible module. I tried the following:

• name: Install the latest version of our standard tools
    ansible.builtin.dnf:
      conf_file: /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
      name:
        - sudo
      state: latest
    environment:
      PATH: /opt/freeware/bin:{{ ansible_env.PATH }}

That results in the following:

t seems, that python can't import the dnf module:

I found DNF failed to run on AIX 7.2 , installing libggc8 and libstdc++8 didn't solve my problems. I see in the failed ansible output, recommends to verify the output of dump -Tv, but that doesn't tell me much. 

Any ideas on how to solve that problem?

Best regards,

  Alexander