On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 7:30 PM Ville Voutilainen < ville.voutilai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 at 23:37, David Edelsohn via cfarm-users > <cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote: > > > > The intent is to keep the AIX installation pure so that it behaves like > a normal AIX system -- for better or worse. It's the only way to ensure > that anything tested on the system behaves consistently for any normal user > of a package tested on the system. > > > > The AIX OSS team have made an effort to segregate official AIX supported > packages and commands from FOSS packages and commands. There are some > commands, like tar, sed, make, that conflict, and there are other commands > where AIX is trying to ensure that customers don't assume an incorrect > level of support because a command is in the normal AIX system namespace. > > That makes perfect sense. Perhaps, instead of adding things from /opt > to the default path, or symlinks from /opt to /usr, it could be > entertained > to add more harmony for what /opt/ and especially /opt/freeware > contain, without adding those things to the PATH. That way users who > want > to treat the cfarm machines uniformly could just depend on things > being in /opt/freeware, and on linux systems, the things installed on > the system > can be just symlinked to /opt/freeware? > IBM AIX OSS organization specifically has chosen minimal symlinks. you can look in /usr/bin and see symlinks for bzip, flex, screen, and zip, but they didn't choose to do that for rsync. I have notified them. But I'm not going to make cfarm119 gratuitously different from a standard AIX install because then it's one more and one more and pretty soon something that works on cfarm119 doesn't work in the rest of the world. Thanks, David
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