From 9daf43db22369afda9983b0f80c02045c025a7fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nott Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:54:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Misc. updates. --- AIX/README | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/AIX/README b/AIX/README index 5fd3516..42d4571 100644 --- a/AIX/README +++ b/AIX/README @@ -1,9 +1,19 @@ -The following open source software is required for xCAT on AIX. Please -review this list to make sure there are no conflicts with any software -currently installed on your system. When you are ready to install the -RPM packages contained in this tar file you can run the "instoss" -scipt, which is also included. +The following is a list of open source software that is either required or +optional when using xCAT on AIX. Please review this list to make sure there +are no conflicts with any software currently installed on your system. + +The openssl-0.9.8 and openssh-4.5 software is available as AIX installp +filesets. They are available on the AIX Expansion pack and also can be +found on the following web site: http://sourceforge.net. Note that some of +the other RPM packages have a dependency on this level of openssl. Also, +since these are installp filesets you should run /usr/sbin/updtvpkg to make +sure that RPM's reflection of what was installed by installp is updated. If +you don't do this you could get dependency errors when installing some of +the RPM packages. + +The rest of the software listed below is provided in this (dep-aix.tar.gz) +tar file. They are all RPM packages that have been built for AIX. 1. openssl-0.9.8 2. openssh-4.5 @@ -24,31 +34,22 @@ scipt, which is also included. 17. openslp-1.2.1 Optional -perl-DBD-mysql-4.007-1 -xcat-mysql-5.0-1.aix5.3.ppc.rpm (mysql-5.0.67) +18. perl-DBD-mysql-4.007-1 +19. xcat-mysql-5.0-1.aix5.3.ppc.rpm (mysql-5.0.67) -The optional MySQL packages are provided for when using the xCAT service -node support. The xcat-mysql package is simply the MySQL gz file that has -been downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql and included in -an xCAT RPM to make the installation of MySQL easier. +When you are ready to install the RPM packages contained in this tar file +you can run the "instoss" scipt, which is also included. -The openssl-0.9.8 and openssh-4.5 software is available as AIX installp -filesets. They are available on the AIX Expansion pack and also can be -found on the following web site: http://sourceforge.net. Note that some of -the other RPM packages have a dependency on this level of openssl. Also, -since these are installp filesets you should run /usr/sbin/updtvpkg to make -that RPM's reflection of what was installed by installp is updated. If you -don't do this you could get dependency errors when installing some of the RPM -packages. - -The rest of the software listed above is provided in this (dep-aix.tar.gz) -tar file. These are all RPM packages that have been built for AIX. +The optional MySQL packages are provided as a convenience for when you wish +to use the xCAT service node support. The xcat-mysql package contains the +MySQL 64 bit gz file that was downloaded from +http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql and included in an xCAT RPM to make +the installation of MySQL easier. The tk, tcl, and expect packages come from the "AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications" web site. (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/os/aix/linux). The packages have been included here for your convenience. For details on -the source and licenses etc. for these packages please refer to the Toolbox -site. +the source and licenses etc. please refer to the Toolbox site. The "perl-*" software is all available from http://search.cpan.org under the Artistic license for Perl. The source was downloaded from the CPAN site and @@ -59,3 +60,6 @@ the RPM was built for AIX with a few minor modifications. The fping software was downloaded from http://fping.sourceforge.net/ and the RPM was built for AIX. + +The openslp-1.2.1 software was downloaded from http://openslp.org/download.html +and the RPM was built for AIX.