On 02/16/2015 10:25 AM, Blaxton wrote: > Franklin, > > I agree AIX is a robust OS, but it is lacking proper support for open > source software > and most of RPM packages in IBM toolbox are old and ancient. > Speaking as someone who spent several years building RPMs on AIX, I'd like to second this, and underline it a few times. Expect to maintain your own package repository, all the way down to compilers. It's entirely possible to maintain your stable of RPMs, and it's certainly got better overlap with FOSS practices than building the native IBM packages. I can even recommend it as a way to accomplish repeatable installs in AIX-land. But you need to expect to learn a lot about RPM, and a decent amount about every package you want to bring in. We wound up with lots of local RPMMACROS in our system config to simplify the process. The last time I built one of these was more than 5 years ago, so I'm not going to go into any more detail, because it'll just be misleading. - Allen S. Rout _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
