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

[Simon Marchi]

On 2025-02-18 13:37, Bruno Haible via cfarm-users wrote:
> 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.

[re-send because I initially sent from the wrong address, sorry for
those in CC]

Agreed.

I think it would be helpful to have MOTD messages indicating the
specifities of each machine, for instance where to find that magic
directory where the modern stuff is installed.

Simon