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Bug 1909135 - CoreOS requirements for powerpc-utils package.
Summary: CoreOS requirements for powerpc-utils package.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: powerpc-utils
Version: 8.3
Hardware: ppc64le
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.4
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Eirik Fuller
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1796871 1915664
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-12-18 12:34 UTC by Archana Prabhakar
Modified: 2021-05-18 14:36 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: powerpc-utils-1.3.8-4.el8
Doc Type: No Doc Update
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
: 1915664 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-05-18 14:35:50 UTC
Type: Bug
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


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Description Archana Prabhakar 2020-12-18 12:34:26 UTC
Description of problem:

We need the bootlist command to work on RHCOS, but this command is part of powerpc-utils package. 

Please pick up all commands from powerpc-utils that dont depend on perl or python and make it available via powerpc-utils-core package on RHEL 8.4. Once this is done, we will get it added into RHCOS 48.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 8.4


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

Unable to install bootlist package on RHEL 8.x OS.


Expected results:

The rpm should be made available via powerpc-utils-core package so that we can do yum install.


Additional info:

Comment 2 Than Ngo 2020-12-21 16:52:16 UTC
it's fixed in powerpc-utils-1.3.8-4.el8

Comment 5 pdsilva 2021-01-06 10:35:14 UTC
@than Thanks, just to be sure, could you please confirm that the "bootlist" command will be included in the powerpc-utils-core package in the 1.3.8-4.el8 version?

Comment 6 Prashanth Sundararaman 2021-01-07 17:20:14 UTC
@Than we are planning on using powerpc-utils-core-1.3.8-4.el8 in RHCOS 4.7 which is based on RHEL8.3. Do you see any issues if we use this package in RHEL8.3 (because it is built against 8.4) ?

Comment 7 Prashanth Sundararaman 2021-01-08 19:18:04 UTC
@Than can we get this backported to 8.3 because we need the bootlist for multi-path to work on OCP 4.7 (which is based on rhel-8.3)

Comment 8 Than Ngo 2021-01-11 09:02:46 UTC
(In reply to pdsilva from comment #5)
> @than Thanks, just to be sure, could you please confirm that the
> "bootlist" command will be included in the powerpc-utils-core package in the
> 1.3.8-4.el8 version?

yes, i can confirm.

rpm -ql powerpc-utils-core-1.3.8-4.el8 | grep sbin

/usr/sbin/activate_firmware
/usr/sbin/bootlist
/usr/sbin/drmgr
/usr/sbin/errinjct
/usr/sbin/hcncfgdrc
/usr/sbin/hcnmgr
/usr/sbin/hcnqrydev
/usr/sbin/hcnrmdev
/usr/sbin/hcnrmhcn
/usr/sbin/hcnversion
/usr/sbin/lparstat
/usr/sbin/ls-vdev
/usr/sbin/ls-veth
/usr/sbin/ls-vscsi
/usr/sbin/lsdevinfo
/usr/sbin/lsprop
/usr/sbin/lsslot
/usr/sbin/nvram
/usr/sbin/nvsetenv
/usr/sbin/ofpathname
/usr/sbin/ppc64_cpu
/usr/sbin/pseries_platform
/usr/sbin/rtas_dbg
/usr/sbin/rtas_event_decode
/usr/sbin/rtas_ibm_get_vpd
/usr/sbin/serv_config
/usr/sbin/set_poweron_time
/usr/sbin/smtstate
/usr/sbin/sys_ident
/usr/sbin/uesensor
/usr/sbin/update_flash
/usr/sbin/update_flash_nv
/usr/sbin/uspchrp
/usr/sbin/vcpustat

Comment 9 Than Ngo 2021-01-11 09:09:26 UTC
(In reply to Prashanth Sundararaman from comment #7)
> @Than can we get this backported to 8.3 because we need the bootlist for
> multi-path to work on OCP 4.7 (which is based on rhel-8.3)

it should work fine on rhel-8.3. I can backport it to 8.3 if we really need it for multi-path to work on OCP 4.7.

Comment 10 Prashanth Sundararaman 2021-01-11 13:44:18 UTC
(In reply to Than Ngo from comment #9)
> (In reply to Prashanth Sundararaman from comment #7)
> > @Than can we get this backported to 8.3 because we need the bootlist for
> > multi-path to work on OCP 4.7 (which is based on rhel-8.3)
> 
> it should work fine on rhel-8.3. I can backport it to 8.3 if we really need
> it for multi-path to work on OCP 4.7.

Thank you Than. backporting to 4.3 would be great just because it will be in parity with rhcos 4.7 which is based off 8.3 and we would like to keep RHCOS as close to the rhel release as possible without much deviation.

Comment 11 Prashanth Sundararaman 2021-01-11 13:45:08 UTC
(In reply to Prashanth Sundararaman from comment #10)
> (In reply to Than Ngo from comment #9)
> > (In reply to Prashanth Sundararaman from comment #7)
> > > @Than can we get this backported to 8.3 because we need the bootlist for
> > > multi-path to work on OCP 4.7 (which is based on rhel-8.3)
> > 
> > it should work fine on rhel-8.3. I can backport it to 8.3 if we really need
> > it for multi-path to work on OCP 4.7.
> 
> Thank you Than. backporting to 4.3 would be great just because it will be in
> parity with rhcos 4.7 which is based off 8.3 and we would like to keep RHCOS
> as close to the rhel release as possible without much deviation.

Typo..i meant 8.3 ..sorry.

Comment 13 lmcfadde 2021-01-12 17:35:56 UTC
Thanks, Than and Prashanth for the focus and updates here.  Looks like there is a plan.  

Than is this work small/simple enough to backport this week?  I'm trying to confirm the timeline will work for OCP 4.7.

Comment 16 Than Ngo 2021-01-13 08:56:54 UTC
(In reply to lmcfadde from comment #13)
> Thanks, Than and Prashanth for the focus and updates here.  Looks like there
> is a plan.  
> 
> Than is this work small/simple enough to backport this week?  I'm trying to
> confirm the timeline will work for OCP 4.7.

yes, i can get the backport done this week. But 8.3.0 zstream update process is time consuming and it can take weeks to finish testing the new package.

Comment 17 Eirik Fuller 2021-01-17 16:47:54 UTC
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/4994716 has two recipes, one with powerpc-utils-1.3.8-4.el8 and one with powerpc-utils-1.3.8-3.el8.

Each recipe ran 'bootlist --help' after removing the perl-interpreter package. The powerpc-utils-core-1.3.8-4.el8 recipe succeeded, and the powerpc-utils-1.3.8-3.el8 recipe failed (bootlist: command not found), as expected.

Each recipe also lists the contents of both powerpc-utils and powerpc-utils-core (before removing perl-interpreter). The powerpc-utils-1.3.8-4.el8 recipe lists considerably fewer files in powerpc-utils, as follows.

/usr/sbin/hvcsadmin
/usr/sbin/rtas_dump
/usr/share/doc/powerpc-utils
/usr/share/doc/powerpc-utils/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/powerpc-utils/README
/usr/share/man/man8/hvcsadmin.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rtas_dump.8.gz

As exptected /usr/sbin/bootlist is included in the powerpc-utils-core listing in the powerpc-utils-1.3.8-4.el8 recipe but not in the powerpc-utils-1.3.8-3.el8 recipe (where it is included in the powerpc-utils listing).

Moving to VERIFIED based on these results.

Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 14:35:50 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (powerpc-utils bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:1583


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