Originally posted by: janhar

Hello

I have opened this thread for an AIX customer. 

• Internal Reference Support Case TS003314422.

Their environment has applications certified on perl 5.10.1. The recent update to AIX 7100-05-05-1939 updated to perl.rte 5.28  which caused application reressions.

They have referred to the  AIX Perl Updates and Support for perl.rte technote. They are aware of the support considerations for perl.rte versus perl.rpm, and are working to address application requirements.

The technote states:

*** Deprecations introduced by newer perl releases might cause issues for customer applications that still rely on earlier AIX perl.rte versions

• Since newer versions often include fixes for vulnerabilities, and AIX Perl applications are tested on the version shipped with the TL, IBM does not provide nor support lower perl.rte versions.

• Customers can generally locate older Perl RPM packages on the AIX Toolbox for Linux® download site.

  • https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/perl/

REQUEST: There is no 5.10.1 version available in this directory. This customer has hundreds of lpars to downgrade, and has made a request for special consideration to provide this 5.10.1 perl.rpm. 

Originally posted by: ReshmaVKumar

We are working on this.

Originally posted by: Thierry De Haes

Hello,

Do you have any idea how long it will take you to deliver the RPM?

Originally posted by: ReshmaVKumar

We will publish the rpm by the end of next week.

Originally posted by: ReshmaVKumar

Perl-5.10.1 is now available on AIX Toolbox.

https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/perl/

Originally posted by: Thierry De Haes

Thank you very much for your reactivity. Can you update the repodata.xml of your RPM repo?

Originally posted by: janhar

Hello, Thierry

We discussed this today in our monthly meeting.  This image is in the process of being added to the repo, but this is not instantaneous. I forgot to ask how long this turnaround is, I'll update this thread when I have this info!

Originally posted by: Nitish Mishra

Hi Thierry !

Repodata is updated.
Please run below commands to install perl-5.10.1-1.

->yum clean all
if higher version than 5.10.1 is installed in system then run:
-----> yum downgrade perl-5.10.1-1

else if lower version is installed, then run:

-----> yum update perl-5.10.1-1
else run:
------> yum install perl-5.10.1-1

Thanks and Regards,
Nitish K Mishra

Originally posted by: phhermes

Hi,

Thank you Thierry for your patience and  THANKS you to all the team to make it happen

kind regards

Philippe