[cfarm-users] rsync on AIX?

[Ville Voutilainen]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 at 23:37, David Edelsohn via cfarm-users
<cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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?