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Date: 2002-11-29 12:32:02
From "Steve Scotten "
Subject: Re: SMIT (was: Re: So... whaddya got?)

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:14:16AM -0500, C.L. Harting wrote:
> I don't believe that IBM is moving to RPM for AIX package management
> (although I haven't seen 5.2 yet).  The RPMs that I have seen and
> installed were all Linux packages compiled to run under AIX, execept for
> RPM:

Are you running 5.1?

Really, the thing that bugs me is the overlap of packages that are
installed with installp and those that are installed with RPM. For
example, if I want to upgrade 

  Fileset                      Level  State  Description
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  perl.rte                   5.5.3.0    C    Perl Version 5 Runtime
                                             Environment

to a newer level, I can get freeware.perl from bull (which won't
satisfy the dependencies for perl.rte) or go to IBM for perl 5.6.1 as
an RPM, which also won't satisfy dependencies. 

...or just do what I did, which was to leave 5.5.3.0 right where it
was and compile 5.8.0 myself. It works, but I don't like having to
leave older versions on my computer. 

I *have* rpm on here, but I don't use it as a last resort, even after
attempting to compile a package myself.

Now after all this griping, I'll probably find that the maintenance
releases I have not yet installed will upgrade my perl and other
things like that, and I'll feel really foolish! =^)


Steve
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Steven M. Scotten
<s@p90.net>

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