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- From: svpillay@berlioz.crs4.it (Kanthan Pillay)
- Subject: Re: Legalities of making PTFs available for ftp?
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.123835.20589@crs4.it>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:38:35 GMT
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- I started off by asking:
- >>>> What are the issues involved in my setting up a repository of AIX PTFs
- >>>> for anonymous ftp?
-
- In article <86645@ut-emx.uucp> taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Vince Taluskie) writes:
- >
- >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.
-
- There are two ways one could go about this. One is to install all PTFs
- in a single directory, run inutoc on it whenever something new arrives,
- and create a compressed tar archive of the entire directory. The other
- way is to split them into ptfs for particular problems. Example, the
- automount PTFs for AIX 3.2.3 come on a single tape with all
- prerequisites. These could be turned into a single IXxxx.tar.Z file.
-
- >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.
-
- Absolutely. I administer an AIX/ESA system on an ES-9000/720 where I
- have the same merry-go-round. The fact is though that the current system
- of PTF acquisition is a pain. I place the order today and it arrives in
- a month from Denmark. Okay, so Sardinia is an island, and the Italian
- postal service is not famed for its efficiency, but IBM Cagliari (which
- partially obscures my view of the sea out my balcony) is not able to get
- it any quicker by placing the order themselves.
-
- On the other hand, I do have access to the net, with a lot of people out
- here who are ordering the same PTFs as I am, sometimes earlier,
- sometimes later. It's a lot easier for me to set up an ftp archive (and
- devote some ridiculous amount of disk space to it), than to try and help
- the IBM bureaucracy get its head out of the sand.
-
- So, to repeat: how legal is it for me to set up an ftp archive site for
- IBM ptfs? I've been collecting responses, and everyone seems to like the
- idea, but is it legal?
-
- >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).
-
- I exported a 300MB partition with anon=0 to all my 400MB machines, then
- NFS-mount that on /tmp manually (so that it is not automatically
- remounted when the system reboots). This seems to give installp enough
- room to work with. Here's "df" from a 400MB system running 3.2.3 with
- everything installed and with 64MB of swap.
- /dev/hd4 4096 572 86% 733 71% /
- /dev/hd2 286720 21560 92% 19210 26% /usr
- /dev/hd9var 4096 3184 22% 107 10% /var
- /dev/hd3 8192 7876 3% 33 1% /tmp
-
- Kanthan Pillay
- Unix Systems Administrator
- C R S 4
- Sardinia
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