/usr/opt/freeware causes AIX433-51 migration to fail

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green_at_EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: 06/27/03

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    I tried to migrate a CWS yesterday, an F50, from AIX433-08 & PSSP32 to
    AIX51-04 and PSSP35.

    Shortly after the migration kicked off, it failed, reporting problems with
    rpm.rte. After poking around for a bit we abandoned the migration and
    restored from a mksysb.

    The problem seems to have been the existence in the 433 system of
    /usr/opt/freeware, which as far as I can tell contains all the components of
    rpm.rte, but rpm.rte is not installed, (according to lslpp).

    As far as I'm aware, nobody has ever fooled with the AIX Toolbox for Linux
    on this system. I've got the same situation on two other servers in this
    cluster.

    Can anyone suggest how and why these files might have gotten there?

    Simon Green
    Altria ITSC Europe Ltd

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