[cfarm-users] Install wget on cfarm{104,119,240) ?

[Bruno Haible]

Martin Guy wrote:
> $ ssh cfarm119 'echo $PATH'
> /usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/java8_64/jre/bin:/usr/java8_64/bin
> 
> Could that be added to ssh's default PATH? Then there'd be curl everywhere.

Please not. It is important that the cfarm machines represent, as much
as possible, the state of an arbirary machine with the same OS out there.

It would invalidate our portability testing of package XY if the
configure script of that package finds that all nice utitilies,
from 'curl' to 'gperf', are available on AIX. Then we make a release
of that package with that assumption. Then we get reports from people
that on _their_ AIX machines that this assumption is not true.

You are free to change you default PATH via .profile or .bashrc.
But don't force it on all users of the cfarm.

Bruno