qna detects wrong package version (AIX)

The qna answer is false:

Q: exists package “puppet-agent” whose (version of it < “6.0.5-1”) of rpm
A: True
T: 522

The installed package is:
host:/opt/freeware/lib/rpm # rpm -q puppet-agent
puppet-agent-6.0.5-1.ppc
host:/opt/freeware/lib/rpm #

Any ideea ?

Thanks,
Mihai

These look = to me, not < ?

Edit: should read more closely, oops.

exactly, so the answer from qna should be “false” not “true”. in the mean time I found out that the bigfix
has its own repository. It means in the repo is the false version (?)

Can you try retrieving
(names of it, versions of it) of packages of rpm

At least two packages are reported to have the wrong version: puppet-agent and bash,

Q: (names of it, versions of it) of packages of rpm
A: vwfs-configs-syslog-ng, 4.0.5-20130523
A: curl, 7.54.1-2
A: db, 4.8.24-3
A: intltool, 0.51.0-2
A: bash, 4.2-3
A: lsof, 4.89-1
A: auditset, 2013050702-vwfs_bs_auditset
A: AIX-rpm, 6.1.7.0-4
A: syslog-ng-premium-edition-client, 4.0.5-1.aix6.1
A: bash, 4.3.30-1
A: openldap, 2.4.40-1
A: sudo, 1.8.15-2
A: vwfs-pam-scan, 2.0-1
A: libgcc, 6.3.0-2
A: puppet-agent, 5.5.8-1
T: 3763

actually the versions are:

host:/usr/lib # rpm -q bash
bash-4.3.30-1.ppc
You have mail in /usr/spool/mail/root
host:/usr/lib # rpm -q puppet-agent
puppet-agent-6.0.5-1.ppc
bsux0014:/usr/lib #

Thanks.

I think you’ll need to contact support and open a PMR, this looks like a bug. What version of client and what version of AIX is this occurring on? I’m also curious whether you have any patches that are applied but not yet committed, though I don’t think that should affect the rpm result.

Have you tried restarting the besclient? The client caches the rpm data, I wonder whether the cache is out of date.

There is a AIX cluster with two nodes. Regarding the software levels both nodes are identical.
On one node is everything ok.

emgr -l

ID STATE LABEL INSTALL TIME UPDATED BY ABSTRACT
=== ===== ========== ================= ========== ======================================
1 S IJ02843s0a 05/19/19 03:08:56 hagsd core in 3.2.3.0
2 S IJ09621s2a 05/19/19 03:09:01 IJ09621 7.1.5.2
3 S IJ10132s2b 05/19/19 03:09:20 CVE-2017-3623
4 S IJ11544s0a 05/19/19 03:09:24 Xorg Security Vulnerability fix
5 S 102pa_mfix 05/19/19 03:09:40 Ifix for CVEs in OpenSSL
6 S IJ12980m2a 05/19/19 03:09:54 Fix Vulnerabilities in tcpdump

STATE codes:
S = STABLE
M = MOUNTED
U = UNMOUNTED
Q = REBOOT REQUIRED
B = BROKEN
I = INSTALLING
R = REMOVING
T = TESTED
P = PATCHED
N = NOT PATCHED
SP = STABLE + PATCHED
SN = STABLE + NOT PATCHED
QP = BOOT IMAGE MODIFIED + PATCHED
QN = BOOT IMAGE MODIFIED + NOT PATCHED
RQ = REMOVING + REBOOT REQUIRED

oslevel -s
7100-05-02-1832