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Operating Systems AIX AIX rpm: a question about deps Post 302921643 by bakunin on Saturday 18th of October 2014 11:39:17 PM
Old 10-19-2014
As Michael Perzl says on his site (the link you quoted) yum needs rpm version 4.4 and above. AIX uses rpm version 3, so there is no real remedy for this. MP offers a - not ideal, but feasible - remedy: cycle through the packages, listing every prerequisite of each, collect the output into file and use sort and uniq to remove duplicates.

AIX has its own packaging system (installp) and rpm was just included as an effort to "look open", back then in ~2000 with AIX 5 and the "Linux compatibility Initiative". This was more a marketing hype by IBM than a genuine effort to make their product better. It stll is.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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RPMSPEC(8)						      System Manager's Manual							RPMSPEC(8)

NAME
       rpmspec - RPM Spec Tool

SYNOPSIS
   QUERYING SPEC FILES:
       rpmspec {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options] SPEC_FILE ...

   select-options
	[--rpms]
	[--srpms]

   query-options
	[--qf,--queryformat QUERYFMT]
	[--target TARGET_PLATFORM]

   QUERY OPTIONS
       The general form of an rpm spec query command is

       rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options]

       You may specify the format that the information should be printed in. To do this, you use the

	--qf|--queryformat QUERYFMT

       option, followed by the QUERYFMT format string.	See rpm(8) for details.

   SELECT OPTIONS
	--rpms Operate on the binary package header(s).
	--srpm Operate on the source package header(s).

SEE ALSO
       popt(3),
       rpm(8),
       rpmdb(8),
       rpmkeys(8),
       rpmsign(8),
       rpm2cpio(8),
       rpmbuild(8),

       rpmspec	--help - as rpm supports customizing the options via popt aliases it's impossible to guarantee that what's described in the manual
       matches what's available.

       http://www.rpm.org/ <URL:http://www.rpm.org/>

AUTHORS
       Marc Ewing <marc@redhat.com>
       Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
       Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
       Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>

Red Hat, Inc							  29 October 2010							RPMSPEC(8)
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