Need help cleaning up Maintenance Levels

[irishmc]

Maintenance levels prior to ML10

> instfix -i | grep -i _ml
All filesets for 4.3.1.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4.3.2.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4.3.1.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4.3.2.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4.3.3.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-02_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4320-02_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-03_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-04_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-05_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-01_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-06_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-07_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-08_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-09_AIX_ML were found.

After installing ML10 we now see:

> instfix -i | grep -i _ml
All filesets for 4.3.1.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4.3.2.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4.3.1.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4.3.2.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4.3.3.0_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 4330-02_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 4320-02_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 4330-03_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 4330-04_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 4330-05_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 4330-01_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 4330-06_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 4330-07_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 4330-08_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 4330-09_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 4330-10_AIX_ML were found.


Filesets included, but not installed from ML10.


> oslevel -rl 4330-10

Fileset Actual Level Recommended ML
------------------------------------------------------------
Java.rmi-iiop.samples 1.1.8.0 1.1.8.1
Java.samples.demos 1.1.8.0 1.1.8.1
OpenGL.OpenGL_X.dev.pci.14108e00.PPC 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.77
OpenGL.OpenGL_X.dev.pci.1410b800.PPC 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.77
OpenGL.OpenGL_X.dev.vfb 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.75
OpenGL.OpenGL_X.rte.base+ 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.75
OpenGL.OpenGL_X.rte.base 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.77
OpenGL.OpenGL_X.rte.soft 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.76
PEX_PHIGS.dev.buc.00004002 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.50
PEX_PHIGS.dev.mca.8ee3 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.50
PEX_PHIGS.dev.mca.8f61 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.51
PEX_PHIGS.dev.mca.8fbc 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.50
PEX_PHIGS.dev.pci.14103c00 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.50
PEX_PHIGS.dev.pci.14105400 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.50
PEX_PHIGS.dev.pci.14105e00 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.50
PEX_PHIGS.dev.pci.14108e00 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.51
PEX_PHIGS.dev.pci.1410b800 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.51
PEX_PHIGS.graPHIGS.rte.base 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.77
PEX_PHIGS.graPHIGS.rte.pipe 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.75
PEX_PHIGS.graPHIGS.rte.soft 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.25
bos.loc.adt.locale 4.3.3.25 4.3.3.77
bos.loc.adt.unicode 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.50
bos.loc.com.bidi 4.3.3.25 4.3.3.26
bos.loc.com.utf 4.3.3.11 4.3.3.50
bos.loc.iso.ko_KR 4.3.3.0 4.3.3.2
bos.loc.iso.zh_TW 4.3.3.10 4.3.3.13

Is there a way to clean up maintenance level information so it reports properly without adding un-needed filesets(or removing requisite filesets)??

(i.e. > instfix -i | grep -i _ml
All filesets for 4.3.1.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4.3.2.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4.3.1.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4.3.2.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4.3.3.0_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-02_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4320-02_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-03_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-04_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-05_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-01_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-06_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-07_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-08_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-09_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-10_AIX_ML were found.)

 

[t1mberwulf]

Well unfortunately the way that ML9 and the early release of ML 10 were packaged they did not include the Java upgrades to 1.1.8.10 and so on, so if you installed the ML you got all sorts of errors that effected the ML output.
One possible cause of the problem could also be if when the software was installed the smitty install_all was used as opposed to smitty update_install the difference is that if the base level is detected on media then it will install it, in most occurences the software is not really necessary (PHEX-PHIGS) where as if you used the smitty update_all it will only update installed filesets
Mind you if wanted to see which one cause the problem then you could also use
instfix -icqk 4330-02_AIX_ML | grep ':-:'
this will also list some of the offending software,
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[Yegolev]

I'm a bit surprised that the bos.loc.* are complaining, perhaps you can try updating those again. As for OpenGL and Pex&Phigs, if you don't use that stuff then use your judgement as whether to keep them or not.

I do not have OpenGL or PEX/PHIGS loaded,
I do not have bos.loc.adt* loaded,
bos.loc.com.bidi 4.3.3.25,
bos.loc.com.utf 4.3.3.50,
bos.loc.iso.ko_KR 4.3.3.0,
bos.loc.iso.zh_TW 4.3.3.10

I am properly at -09, so I suspect that one problem lies with the Java filesets and another with the rest of them. I am not sure why the language files did not update properly, perhaps a check of the log would reveal something. IBM Certified -- AIX 4.3 Obfuscation

 

[irishmc]

Thanks for the replies.

It appears that one of our sys admins installed via "install_latest" which may explain the inconsistencies.

I will use your suggestions for updating our remaining servers. Thanks!!