[cfarm-users] Automated deployment across multiple cfarm hosts

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Sun, 15 Sept 2024 at 10:40, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >>cfarm210 is running an ancient version of SSH that requires all sorts of
> >>algorithm downgrades to work.  This isn't a big deal security-wise, but it
> >>does mean adding a pile of overrides to the client-side SSH.
> >
> >That's an out-of-support version of Solaris, there's a newer Solaris box in
> >the farm now.
>
> cfarm216?  Already testing on that, but I need to support stuff going back
> years if not decades (the oldest setup I know of is from 1998), so it's good
> to have older systems still around for regression tests.
>
> For anyone else needing to do this from a script, the magic for SSH is:
>
> SSH_ARGS="-o PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa -o KexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 -o HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no"
>
> >>cfarm210 has a range of Sun/Oracle compilers but no other build tools (make,
> >>etc) that I can find.
> >
> >/opt/csw/bin
>
> I'd looked in there but couldn't find anything (make, ar, strip, etc). There's
> g<everything> present, but I was hoping to test with Sun tools to verify the
> ability to build on a Sun-only platform.

There are multiple installations of Sun Studio in /opt: 12.1, 12.2,
12.3, 12.4, 12.5 and 12.6

/opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc works, I didn't test the others.