Originally posted by: ruxi002

Hi,

the RPM package for gzip-1.8-1.ppc has no links to /usr/bin for the tools.

But for /usr/linux/bin - but this is not really useful, because So You would have to change Your PATH variable and could also set it to /opt/freeware/bin - for us it would be the same because links in /usr/linux are just "not fitting".

Maybe You could change those links?!? 

I checked other tools like bzip2 and there it is correct.

Thanks in advance

Martin

Opensource the planet 

Originally posted by: AyappanP

It's good to have Opensource package files going to /opt/freeware/ so that it will not mess up with AIX base files in /usr/. There are some exceptions like bzip2 (probably due to packaging mistake). 

That being said , we are going to ship the files only into /opt/freeware and the user has to export /opt/freeware/bin in PATH variable.

Originally posted by: ruxi002

I agree to that completely (e.g. for the tar), but packages with no equivalent like gzip could be linked in /usr/bin without any problems.

Or can we expect a gzip from IBM directly?

gzip has become somewhat like a standard utility for a lot of my collegues and they have their own profile and PATH variable. I just want to make their life easier.

Thanks

Martin

Originally posted by: sanket

As Ayappan said all the open source packages comes from AIX toolbox goes into /opt/freeware to separate it from base AIX.

Because in future if anything is provided in base AIX that should not conflict with open source packages provided from AIX toolbox.

Originally posted by: ruxi002

I really understand all Your arguments but in reality - the toolbox is now more than 10 years old - IBM provided very few examples of colliding packages.

e.g. openssh - and that one was dumped years ago.

My wish always was to drop the rpm and move everything to LPP/BFF but only some universities and Bull provided those packages and gave up years ago.

So instead providing the links through the rpm package one time the suggestion is to change the PATH variable for dozens of users (because the global profile will not be changed due to internal rules).

For me Opensource Utilities were always a good way to promote AIX to people who are very comfortable with Linux. But convincing them to use AIX needs arguments, not additional work to do. It's just not easy for them to understand, that with the perzl packages (from Michael Perzl) it worked and now it doesn't anymore.

In our company people don't like differences between those 2 platforms - especially when AIX has so many disadvantages in the opensource sector. While Linux servers are growing in our house the AIX plattform is slowly dying and thats sad. Main problem here is the availability of certain opensource tools and modules.

Maybe Linux on Power has a better chance to survive (HANA for example ist a good motor for us but not enough - MariaDB, PostgreSQL and others would be candidates but a lot of people here think that there is no need to switch to ppc - even when there are some advantages. But that's hard to sell.

My conclusion is now - we will have to provide our own post scripts for creating the links or change some company rules. Not a problem - just some work to do.