how to install PAMSC14.1CP05 using rpm

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Hi PAMSC Support team:

I need your help.

[Environment]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.4

CA PAMSC14.1CP05(1410-50.151)

# rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.14.3-13.el8.x86_64
# rpm -q rpm-build
rpm-build-4.14.3-13.el8.x86_64
# rpm -q rpm-libs
rpm-libs-4.14.3-13.el8.x86_64

[Question]

I tired to install PAMSC14.1CP05 latest version RPM package with root user like this.

CAeAC-1410-50.151.x86_64.rpm, pre.tar and customize_eac_rpm are in /root/tmp/rpmpkg directory.

#./customize_eac_rpm -g -f parameter1.txt -d /root/tmp/rpmpkg CAeAC-1410-50.151.x86_64.rpm

After that, I modified the parameter1.txt file to enable a token.

#./customize_eac_rpm -s -f parameter1.txt -d /root/tmp/rpmpkg CAeAC-1410-50.61.x86_64.rpm

At this point, there is no error messages.

However, the update date&time for the CAeAC-1410-50.61.x86_64.rpm was not updated.

So the CAeAC-1410-50.61.x86_64.rpm was not repackaged.

What do you think about it?

Best regrads,

Marubun,

[Dmitry Grebenev]

Any chance you don't have enought disk space?  Please check that first and do clean up if you are running short.

The steps themselves are correct and I have just verified that they work fine, though, I did it using CAeAC-1410-60.97.x86_64.rpm, which should not matter since there were no changes in that area for a while.   Can you extract parameters from the current rpm, and see if it is there,  i.e.,

./customize_eac_rpm -g  -f param3.txt -d /root/tmp/rpmpkg CAeAC-1410-50.61.x86_64.rpm

diff  parameter1.txt  param3.txt

Dmitry

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HI Dmitry,

Thank you for your update.

Yes, the desk space is no problem.

Also, I checked the output file between 14.10-50 (151) and 14.10-50 (61).

# diff parameter1.txt param3.txt
7c7
< # VeRsIoN: 14.10-50 (151)
---
> # VeRsIoN: 14.10-50 (61)
#

So the output file is no problem.

About my testbox(Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.4):

The box is on AWS.

I cannot use Linux boxes on VMware or VirtualBOX.

Can you test the steps on AWS?

Best regards.

Marubun.

[MARUBUN SUPPORT]

HI Dmitry,

I tried to test the same steps another Linux box on AWS.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo)
# rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.11.3-48.el7_9.x86_64
# rpm -q rpm-build
rpm-build-4.11.3-48.el7_9.x86_64
# rpm -q rpm-libs
rpm-libs-4.11.3-48.el7_9.x86_64

In this box, it worked properly.
# ./customize_eac_rpm -g -f parameter2.txt -d /home/media/PAMSC141CP5/RPM14.10.50.151 CAeAC-1410-50.151.x86_64.rpm
Extracted  into <parameter2.txt>.
# ./customize_eac_rpm -s -f parameter2.txt -d /home/media/PAMSC141CP5/RPM14.10.50.151 CAeAC-1410-50.151.x86_64.rpm
Successfully customized installation parameters.
Repacking the CAeAC rpm package...
Copying a repacked rpm package into </home/media/PAMSC141CP5/RPM14.10.50.151/CAeAC-1410-50.151.x86_64.rpm>.

The difference between not working and working is OS version and rpm version.

[Not working Env]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.4
# rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.14.3-13.el8.x86_64
# rpm -q rpm-build
rpm-build-4.14.3-13.el8.x86_64
# rpm -q rpm-libs
rpm-libs-4.14.3-13.el8.x86_64

# ./customize_eac_rpm -g -f parameter2.txt -d /home/media/PAMSC141CP5/RPM14.10.50.151 CAeAC-1410-50.151.x86_64.rpm
Extracted  into <parameter2.txt>.
# ./customize_eac_rpm -s -f parameter2.txt -d /home/media/PAMSC141CP5/RPM14.10.50.151 CAeAC-1410-50.151.x86_64.rpm
Successfully customized installation parameters.
Repacking the CAeAC rpm package...

What do you think about it?

Best regards,
Marubun

[Dmitry Grebenev]

Hello Marubin,

the "Repacking the CAeAC rpm package..." message indicates the start of a
rpmbuild operatio. The fact that no "Copying a repacked rpm package into
<..." message was shown (and the script exits with a non-zero exit code in
that case) suggests that rpmbuild failed for some reason. If disk space
was checked and there is plenty of it (should be at least about 1.3 GB free
with the latest cAeAC rpms), then please examine a log file called
/tmp/customize_eac_rpm.log-root that the customize_eac_rpm script creates
for that operation and provide the last dozen lines from it for further
analysis. BTW, can you also provide df -k from the failing system?

Best regards

Dmitry

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Hi Dmitry,

# df -m
Filesystem     1M-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs             377     0       377   0% /dev
tmpfs                404     0       404   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                404    11       393   3% /run
tmpfs                404     0       404   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/xvda2         20468  7745     12724  38% /
tmpfs                 81     0        81   0% /run/user/0

So disk space is no problem, I think.

Best regards,

Marubun.

[Dmitry Grebenev]

Hello Marubin,

now I can see that disk space shortage indeed can be ruled out (~12GB
free). What about the /tmp/customize_eac_rpm.log-root logfile that
collects specifically output for rpmbuild operation? customize_eac_rpm
only manipulates CAeAC content as per its command-line options, but the
actual rebuild is all on Red Hat's rpm. the whole thing works fine for me
on CentOS 7.9 and RHEL 9.2. If there is a problem with a particular
version of RPM on a particular distribution, the matter should be
rather brought up with the vendor. BTW, customizing CAeAC can be done on
*any* machine that has RPM - not just the target machine. It can be even
done on a different Linux platform, e.g., on x64 for 390x, and ince
customized the package can be installed on all of its intended target
machines.
BTW, Is there a support ticket for this to enable expeditious exchange of
information and data?

Dmitry

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HI Dmitry

I didn't know the log file.

So I checked the file and saw the following errors in the tail lines.

=====

File processing: CAeAC-1410-50.151.x86_64
Error: Empty %files file /tmp/customize_eac/root/redhat/BUILD/CAeAC/file.lst

RPM build error:
    Empty %files file /tmp/customize_eac/root/redhat/BUILD/CAeAC/file.lst

=====

For sure, the file.lst was empty.

Also, I saw 2 files in /tmp/customize_eac/root/redhat/BUILD/CAeAC.

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  0  5月 21 14:18 file.lst
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 20  5月 21 14:18 file.lst.raw

The file.lst.raw is,,

# cat file.lst.raw
/tmp/CAeAC-rpmbuild

Best regards,

Marubun,

[Dmitry Grebenev]

Hello Marubin,

I need to take a look at that full logfile to provide further comments. Is
there a support ticket where you can upload it? If - yes, then I also
suggest collecting and uploading support information from the system in
question using PIM's support.sh. That should provide a full context for
the problem and eliminate the need for multiple rounds of questions and
answers, thus expediting resolution.

Regards.

Dmitry

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Hi Dmitry

Thank you for your reply.

If I need the investigate the root cause in details, I will open the case.

Thanks,

Marubun,