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Status Under review
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 25, 2024

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gskcrypt64-8.0.55 rpm packages require invalid binary files /bin/ln and /bin/sh

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For a long time RHEL has provided both /bin/X and /usr/bin/X even though the packages only install /usr/bin/X

This is true for RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9

The gskcrypt64 package should have been changed a long time ago to require /usr/bin/X components rather than /bin/X links.

Recent changes in the fedora packaging, which usually follows into the RHEL packaging has stopped providing the /bin/X links and now only provide the /usr/bin/X items. The result of this is that the gskcrypt64 can no longer be installed using the package management system (dnf) on the latest releases of Fedora.

Please update all of the RPMs related to Storage Protect to require /usr/bin/X components rather than the /bin/X components.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 10, 2025

    This is blocking the use of the backup client of RHEL10 and CentOS Stream 10 as dnf rejects the installation:

    bash-5.2$ sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck ./gskssl64-8.0.55.31.linux.x86_64.rpm ./gskcrypt64-8.0.55.31.linux.x86_64.rpm
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Error:
Problem 1: conflicting requests
- nothing provides /bin/ln needed by gskssl64-8.0-55.31.x86_64 from @commandline
Problem 2: conflicting requests
- nothing provides /bin/ln needed by gskcrypt64-8.0-55.31.x86_64 from @commandline
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages or '--setopt=optional_metadata_types=filelists' to load additional filelists metadata)

     

    We inquired RedHat for this problem as we first believed in an dnf bug but the replied that the behavior is excepted and the rpm requirements should be adjusted.

    Link to the RedHat Case: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-81048


    Recommendation is to remove the dependency for /bin/ln as it is in possible to install a system without the coreutils.

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