Re: [IBMiOSS] RPMs, yum, and 5733-OPS

[R Brown <rbpaservices@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am using yum. It is a world better than applying PTFs. I am not an IBM
employee, so I am not positive about the future of 5733-OPS. I do know that
the library path for yum updates /installs is completely different from the
5733-OPS paths. So if you begin using yum, you will need to change the path
to use the latest version. Long way around saying that it does not seem
likely that both ways will continue to be supported.

On Fri, May 11, 2018, 1:07 PM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There hasn't been a lot of chatter on the channels I follow (this and
> other midrange.com lists, Ryver, Stack Overflow), but I happened to
> notice some recent updates to the wiki hosted on Bitbucket and the
> relevant IBM developerWorks pages (I guess nominally also a wiki, but
> for most of us it amounts to a collection of articles with comments).
>
> The most notable and exciting has to do with RPMs and yum. This has
> been hinted at for a while, but it seems that things have progressed
> enough to have crossed some threshold:
>
> [From the Open Source Technologies page <https://ibm.co/29zvycS>]
>
> Many open source packages, including Node.js version 8, are available
> for IBM i 7.2 and newer in RPM form. Hundreds of tools and libraries
> are available in this technology preview, and getting started is easy!
> See Open Source RPM's for more informaiton
>
> [From the Open Source RPMs page <https://ibm.co/2I3K26c>]
>
> Some notable deliveries include:
>
> * Node.js version 8
> * Python 3.6
> * The 'less' utility
> * git
> * The 'updatedb' and 'locate' utilities (in the 'findutils' package)
> * GCC 6.3.0 and many development tools such as automake, autoconf, m4,
> libtool, etc.
> * GNU versions of many common utilities such as ls, grep, sed, awk.....
> * GNU Nano
> * many, many more things.....
>
> One of the first things asked on the RPMs - Getting Started page
> <https://ibm.co/2KRzAgy> (in a comment from Bryan Dietz) is
> (paraphrased):
>
> With this new RPM/yum stuff, do we need 5733-OPS anymore?
>
> Nobody gave an answer. Maybe it's really obvious to those who are in
> the know, but I'm still wondering this myself. Specifically, does the
> "bootstrap" for RPM depend on 5733-OPS at all?
>
> (Note that I am NOT asking whether all the software in 5733-OPS is
> available in RPM form. I mean, that's also a valid question I suppose,
> but not the one I'm focused on.)
>
> John Y.
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