I am not sure how yum installer works. I know that the lib.a files are shared
library, an archive, which hold abc.a files. Like a tar file, tar=TapeArchive.
You can list the contents of a .a file with ar. ar -t /usr/lib/libcrypto.a
should show a few libcrypto.so files.
So yum didn't see the version it wanted in /usr/lib/libcrypto.a, which was
libcrypto.so.1.1. which I found in openssl-3.0.10.1002/openssl.base.
It's a backup/restore file -IBM format - so I used restore -Tqvf ./openssl.base
|grep crypto to see if it was there and restore -xqvf ./openssl
/usr/lib/libcrypto.a
To get it out and the ar to add to lib.a
Wow - later than I thought.
Thanks for your help
Hope we can do more next week
-Brendan
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew C Aitchison <cla...@aitchison.me.uk>
Sent: Friday, May 3, 2024 5:00 PM
To: Walsh, Brendan L. (FFD) (CON) <bwal...@fbi.gov>
Cc: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>; Brendan Walsh
<brendanlwa...@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [clamav-users] [EXTERNAL EMAIL] - Re: ClamAV.0.103.11 as
clamav-0.103.11-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm fails to install on AIX7.2 on non AIX
dependencies like vim
On Fri, 3 May 2024, Brendan Walsh wrote:
> IBM has this handy install option called 'install from all available'.
> Say if you want to install something like clamav in /software/clamav.
> so you call it with that option and it checks the dependencies and
> looks thru all the files in the dir and uses any that are required.
> Do you know if something like that available for yum or dnf?
I don't remember yum being able to read packages from a directory rather than a
full-blown repo. DNF came in after I switched to Ubuntu.
Sorry.
> Hi - I also meant to ask what you meant about not satisfying the
> installer I thought it said it looked in that lib archive ?
>>> I extracted the file from openssl3 and added it to libcrypto.a but
>>> its still failing.
>> Extracting the file from another package and adding it *may* help the
>> program to run, but it wont satisfy the rpm installer.
I meant that the openssl3 package probably has libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so.3)
rathr than libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so.1.1).
Also if you found the library/object libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so.1.1) and put the
file in the correct place, then it would be found if you could run clamav, but
dnf/yum/rpm wont know it is there (since they didn't put it there) so still
wont allow you to install clamav.
( I'm not used to .a libraries in rpms (except in -devel packages) and guess
that the installer confirms that a .a library has the required object inside,
and then installs the whole library.)
--
Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
and...@aitchison.me.uk
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