Hi community,
I saw in AIX_Toolbox PPC there is groff package available (ok, it is an old version from 2001, maybe still working):
Index of /aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/groff

However, this package is not present in the repodata, so when synching AIX_Toolbox_ppc from IBM, groff is not synced.

Any idea if that's intentional that groff is not part of the repodata ?

Thanks and best regards

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Lionel Widmer
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#AIXOpenSource

Yes, that is intentional. We don't want too much old rpms to be part of the repo. 
It is interesting though to know it is still being used.

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Ayappan P
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Hi,

Thanks for your answer. Understand this strategy. I have downloaded groff RPM manually and placed it on our custom yum repo, it works fine and as we don't expect newer versions of groff, it is not an issue to have this RPM unsynchronized with AIX_Toolbox

And yes groff is used, especially by aws CLI (see aws help command fails without less installed · Issue #1957 · aws/aws-cli)

Best regards
Lionel

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Lionel Widmer
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu November 10, 2022 05:11 AM
From: Ayappan P
Subject: AIX_Toolbox - package groff

Yes, that is intentional. We don't want too much old rpms to be part of the repo. 
It is interesting though to know it is still being used.

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Ayappan P
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