[cfarm-users] Automated deployment across multiple cfarm hosts

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Sun, 15 Sept 2024 at 10:52, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Oh and /opt/SUNWspro which is even older (2010).