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

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM Bruno Haible via cfarm-users
<cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> 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.

Jeff