Re: [IBMiOSS] AIX Toolbox gets more stuff, YUM anyone? -- OPENSOURCE

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"OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 07/08/2016
11:14:30 AM:

When at cec2016.se I attended an AIX session and the presenter announced
that by the end of June, 2016 there would be not only more RPMs

available

but also a formal port of YUM**. Welp, it's here...

http://bit.ly/aix-2016-comes-alive

If my little sister wasn't getting married over the weekend I can tell

you

what I'd be doing :-)

Anyone want to kick the YUM tires and let the group know whether it

works

in PASE?

**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowdog_Updater,_Modified

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i

I prefer zypper: https://github.com/openSUSE/zypper

Not sure why they ported YUM, when it's already been replaced by DNF:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNF_(software)

I also don't think you'll make much headway, since none of the RPMs will
match architecture/platform and YUM won't be able to figure out how to
resolve any dependencies. In order to get a package manager on the system,
it (and the packages) have to be actually built on (or cross-compiled
*for*) that platform.

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