Error Message

Infoscale installation through YUM for RHEL8 fails due to missing Infoscale 'grouplist' in the repodata

# yum grouplist |grep 741

To install Infoscale 7.4.1GA (7.4.1.1500) on RHEL8 using YUM repo, one of the required files (*-comps_all_741.xml) is missing under the '../repo/repodata' directory of ISO image.

Veritas Engineering has identified the problem and confirmed that there was an error while generating this file (*-comps_all_741.xml) for 7.4.1 RHEL8 Release which was caught and fixed after 7.4.1. This missing file would only hit issue if tries to install 7.4.1 using YUM commands, other ways on installation work fine.

It is not possible to recut/recreate an entire ISO image for only 1 file, considering the fact that:

1) the missing XML file or repodata can be generated manually, which can be used for installation (as a script).
2) other ways of installation works good and no issues found.

NOTE:- Please note that this issue is with IS 7.4.1GA on RHEL8 combination only while installing through YUM.

As a workaround, kindly download the attached '.sh' file, which has a new  'repodata' directory that contains the missing elements. Replace the original repodata directory from the downloaded Infoscale tgz/iso.

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# sh repodata.sh

Creating directory repodata

Verifying archive integrity...  100%   MD5 checksums are OK. All good.

Uncompressing extracts the repodata folder  100%

repodata directory extacted

# ls

repodata  repodata.sh

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Please confirm that  'yum group list' returns as below:

# yum group list | grep 741
  ENTERPRISE741
  AVAILABILITY741
  FOUNDATION741
  STORAGE741
 

can proceed to install the packages using any of the options listed above:

Example:

# yum groupinstall -y ENTERPRISE741