[gpfsug-discuss] How to install efix with yum ?
IBM Spectrum Scale
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Thu Jan 16 22:59:14 GMT 2020
On Spectrum Scale 4.2.3.15 or later and 5.0.2.2 or later, you can install
gplbin without stopping GPFS by using the following step:
Build gpfs.gplbin using mmbuildgpl --build-packge
Set environment variable MM_INSTALL_ONLY to 1 before install gpfs.gplbin
package with rpm -i gpfs.gplbin*.rpm
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gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org wrote on 01/16/2020 10:32:27 AM:
> From: Skylar Thompson <skylar2 at uw.edu>
> To: gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org
> Date: 01/16/2020 10:35 AM
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to install efix with yum ?
> Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org
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> Another problem we've run into with automating GPFS installs/upgrades is
> that the gplbin (kernel module) packages have a post-install script that
> will unmount the filesystem *even if the package isn't for the running
> kernel*. We needed to write some custom reporting in our configuration
> management system to only install gplbin if GPFS was already stopped on
the
> node.
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 10:35:23PM +0000, Sanchez, Paul wrote:
> > This reminds me that there is one more thing which drives the
> convoluted process I described earlier???
> >
> > Automation. Deployment solutions which use yum to build new hosts
> are often the place where one notices the problem. They would need
> to determine that they should install both the base-version and efix
> RPMS and in that order. IIRC, there were no RPM dependencies
> connecting the efix RPMs to their base-version equivalents, so
> there was nothing to signal YUM that installing the efix requires
> that the base-version be installed first.
> >
> > (Our particular case is worse than just this though, since we
> prohibit installing two versions/releases for the same (non-kernel)
> package name. But that???s not the case for everyone.)
> >
> > -Paul
> >
> > From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org <gpfsug-discuss-
> bounces at spectrumscale.org> On Behalf Of IBM Spectrum Scale
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 16:00
> > To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
> > Cc: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org
> > Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to install efix with yum ?
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> >
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> >
> >
> > >> I don't see any yum options which match rpm's '--force' option.
> > Actually, you do not need to use --force option since efix RPMs
> have incremental efix number in rpm name.
> >
> > Efix package provides update RPMs to be installed on top of
> corresponding PTF GA version. When you install 5.0.4.1 efix9, if 5.
> 0.4.1 is already installed on your system, "yum update" should work.
> >
> > Regards, The Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team
> >
> >
>
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> > [Inactive hide details for Jonathan Buzzard ---01/15/2020 02:09:33
> PM---On 15/01/2020 18:30, Sanchez, Paul wrote: > Yum
> generall]Jonathan Buzzard ---01/15/2020 02:09:33 PM---On 15/01/2020
> 18:30, Sanchez, Paul wrote: > Yum generally only wants there to be
> single version of a
> >
> > From: Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan.buzzard at strath.ac.uk<
> mailto:jonathan.buzzard at strath.ac.uk>>
> > To: "gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<mailto:gpfsug-
> discuss at spectrumscale.org>" <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<
> mailto:gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>>
> > Date: 01/15/2020 02:09 PM
> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to install efix with yum
?
> > Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org<mailto:gpfsug-
> discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org>
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> >
> >
> > On 15/01/2020 18:30, Sanchez, Paul wrote:
> > > Yum generally only wants there to be single version of any package
(it
> > > is trying to eliminate conflicting provides/depends so that all of
the
> > > packaging requirements are satisfied). So this alien packaging
practice
> > > of installing an efix version of a package over the top of the base
> > > version is not compatible with yum.
> >
> > I would at this juncture note that IBM should be appending the efix
> > number to the RPM so that for example
> >
> > gpfs.base-5.0.4-1 becomes gpfs.base-5.0.4-1efix9
> >
> > which would firstly make the problem go away, and second would allow
one
> > to know which version of GPFS you happen to have installed on a node
> > without doing some sort of voodoo.
> >
> > >
> > > The real issue for draconian sysadmins like us (whose systems must
use
> > > and obey yum) is that there are files (*liblum.so) which are
provided by
> > > the non-efix RPMS, but are not owned by the packages according to
the
> > > RPM database since they???re purposefully installed outside of
RPM???s
> > > tracking mechanism.
> > >
> >
> > It worse than that because if you install the RPM directly yum/dnf
then
> > start bitching about the RPM database being modified outside of
> > themselves and all sorts of useful information gets lost when you
purge
> > the package installation history to make the error go away.
> >
> > > We work around this by repackaging the three affected RPMS to
include
> > > the orphaned files from the original RPMs (and eliminating the
related
> > > but problematic checks from the RPMs??? scripts) so that our efix
RPMs
> > > have been ???un-efix-ified??? and will install as expected when
> using ???yum
> > > upgrade???. To my knowledge no one???s published a way to do this,
so we
> > > all just have to figure this out and run rpmrebuild for ourselves.
> > >
> >
> > IBM should be hanging their heads in shame if the replacement RPM is
> > missing files.
> >
> > JAB.
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420
> > HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt.
> > University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG
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> -- Skylar Thompson (skylar2 at u.washington.edu)
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