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- From: taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Vince Taluskie)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Legalities of making PTFs available for ftp?
- Message-ID: <86645@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:51:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.171004.69432@crs4.it> <C15ssG.t7u@austin.ibm.com> <1jkq6qINNl1g@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
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- In article <1jkq6qINNl1g@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> woks4000@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Ksoll) writes:
- >In article <C15ssG.t7u@austin.ibm.com> spider@vnet.ibm.com writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan19.171004.69432@crs4.it>, svpillay@.crs4.it (Kanthan
- >>Pillay) writes:
- >>>
- >>> What are the issues involved in my setting up a repository of AIX PTFs
- >>> for anonymous ftp?
- >>
- >>I think this would be an awesome idea....
- [ deleted ]
- >>.............................Keep in mind that storing these PTF's could
- >>realistically add up to over 1 Gigabyte! Also, If I want to ftp a PTF,
- >>I also need to know all the pre-requisite, co-req, if-req, etc... PTF's that
- >>go along with the one that I want to put on in order to install the PTF.
- >>This means there must be some logical shellscript written to do this, else
- >>the person wanting the PTF will need to get them all (and probably won't be
- >>able to since they don't have enough disk space).
-
- The problem is making sure that you have all the pre-reqs needed for
- a fix and with the HUGE amount of fixes out there knowing where your
- system is at any given time is difficult since sometimes installing a
- fix will break something else.
-
- A few months back our University AIX Users group had a meeting with
- some of the installp (and I think kernel) people (one of the perks
- being in Austin). They were talking about AIX 4.0 and they were
- talking about having the ability to allow admins to shrink filesystems
- online, etc.
-
- What I would much rather have more than anything else in this world is
- for IBM to take a group of their AIXers and have them install ALL the
- fixes in the system (fixing those conflicts that might arise between
- patches), then 're-gen the kernel' (as my SE liked to say) and STOP.
- Release that as AIX 3.3.0
-
- I would much rather have reliable operation of the system that I
- have now instead of any 'new features' and alot of unresolved
- questions. I would gladly do a re-install on my machines, if I
- knew that what I was getting was sound.
-
- I'd also like to know what people are doing who have a 400 MB disk
- as rootvg and are running out of space to install these fixes (even
- after commiting).
-
- Ta ta for now,
-
- Vince Taluskie
-
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- Vince Taluskie taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu
- Unix Services Physics Computer Group University of Texas at Austin
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