[cfarm-users] rsync on AIX?

[David Edelsohn]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 7:30 PM Ville Voutilainen <
ville.voutilainen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 at 23:37, David Edelsohn via cfarm-users
> <cfarm-users at 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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