Hello,
I will install efix9 on 5.0.4.1. The instructions ask to use
rpm --force -U gpfs.*.rpm
but give no yum command. I assume that this is not specific to this efix. I
wonder if installing an efix with yum is supported and what the proper commands
are? Using yum would make deployment much
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
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Thanks,
Kristy
> On Jan 6, 2020, at 3:41 PM, Kristy Kallback-Rose wrote:
>
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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
>> 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,
Hi there,
I know some of the Spectrum Scale developers look at this list. I’m having a
little trouble with support on this problem.
We are seeing crashes with GPFS 5.0.4-1 Data Access Edition on KVM guests with
a portability layer that has been installed via gpfs.gplbin RPMs that we built
at
Simon,
Thanks for launching this Slack channel!
Copying some of my colleagues who works with Discover.
Frank
Frank Lee, PhD
IBM Systems Group
314-482-5329 | @drfranknlee
From: Simon Thompson
To: "gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org"
Date: 01/14/2020 02:25 PM
Subject:
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
When requesting efix, you can inform the service personnel that you need
efix RPMs which don't have dependencies on the base-version. Our service
team should be able to provide the appropriate efix RPMs that meet your
needs.
Regards, The Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team
