Originally posted by: Morten_Torstensen

When running "yum update" there are some filesets that are not installed because they fail, and the RPM files are trunkated on public.dhe.ibm.com.

Is there some problem there, as other files were corrupted as well?

Here is the output from yum:

> yum update
AIX_Toolbox                                                                                                                                       | 2.9 kB  00:00:00     
AIX_Toolbox_Extended                                                                                                                              | 2.9 kB  00:00:00     
AIX_Toolbox_noarch                                                                                                                                | 2.9 kB  00:00:00     
IBM_EVRY_repo                                                                                                                                     | 2.9 kB  00:00:00     
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package expect.ppc 0:5.42.1-3 will be updated
---> Package expect.ppc 0:5.42.1-4 will be an update
---> Package tcl.ppc 0:8.4.7-3 will be updated
---> Package tcl.ppc 0:8.4.7-4 will be an update
---> Package tk.ppc 0:8.4.7-3 will be updated
---> Package tk.ppc 0:8.4.7-4 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=========================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                Arch                                Version                                    Repository                                   Size
=========================================================================================================================================================================
Updating:
 expect                                 ppc                                 5.42.1-4                                   AIX_Toolbox                                 666 k
 tcl                                    ppc                                 8.4.7-4                                    AIX_Toolbox                                 1.4 M
 tk                                     ppc                                 8.4.7-4                                    AIX_Toolbox                                 1.3 M

Transaction Summary
=========================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrade       3 Packages

Total size: 3.4 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Check
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Updating   : tcl-8.4.7-4.ppc                                                                                                                                       1/6 
Error unpacking rpm package tcl-8.4.7-4.ppc
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/tcl8.4: cpio: rename
  Updating   : tk-8.4.7-4.ppc                                                                                                                                        2/6 
Error unpacking rpm package tk-8.4.7-4.ppc
error: tcl-8.4.7-4.ppc: install failed
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/tk8.4: cpio: rename
  Updating   : expect-5.42.1-4.ppc                                                                                                                                   3/6 
Error unpacking rpm package expect-5.42.1-4.ppc
error: tk-8.4.7-4.ppc: install failed
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/expect5.42: cpio: rename
expect-5.42.1-3.ppc was supposed to be removed but is not!
tcl-8.4.7-3.ppc was supposed to be removed but is not!
tk-8.4.7-3.ppc was supposed to be removed but is not!

Failed:
  expect.ppc 0:5.42.1-3          expect.ppc 0:5.42.1-4          tcl.ppc 0:8.4.7-3          tcl.ppc 0:8.4.7-4          tk.ppc 0:8.4.7-3          tk.ppc 0:8.4.7-4         

Complete!

Originally posted by: sangameshm

Hi Morten,

From AIX 6.1 TL4 tcl/tk/expect has been shipped an installp fileset tcl.base, tk.base, expect.base.

The rpms on public.dhe.ibm.com is just a place holder with empty files in it.

I guess some AIX install scripts needs these rpms thats's why keep them in public.dhe.ibm.com.

Thanks,

Sangamesh

Originally posted by: Morten_Torstensen

Yes, but they will lead to problems whenever another RPM has them as prereqs (not just this version, but any version).

It seems to me that someone does not treat the files on public.dhe.ibm.com as a proper yum repository, just just as another ftp repo.

Someone should fix this so that "yum update" gives a clean state.