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Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩 May 17, 2025

@bcallah the reason it think it's AIX 2 is because of the uname output, it's $OSNAME $NODENAME $MINOR $MAJOR, AIX testnode 2 7 000000000000 or similar

Dr. Brian Callahan May 18, 2025

@freya Yes, but pkgsrc is supposed to have code to notice and do the right thing.

Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩

@bcallah we would test that, but for some reason, if we install AIX 7.2TL5 in qemu, then install DNF and update packages and all that, and reboot, we get 00C9 and it bootloops. have you experienced that?

Dr. Brian Callahan May 19, 2025

@freya Wait, you have TL5? I only have TL4. I do not experience that bootloop issue on TL4.

TL5 is potentially more interesting than TL4 as IBM claims TL5 can run the proprietary LLVM-based xlC, which I am hoping means we could build a vanilla LLVM for AIX on TL5 (which I have been unable to do on TL4).

@bcallah sorry, no, TL4. We haven't figured out how to recover from the 00C9, we replaced the fsck64 bianry with a nul shellscript and it still does it.

@bcallah we'd olve to run 7.3, but they removed the virtio drivers and fucked up running it in kvm

Dr. Brian Callahan May 19, 2025

@freya I know, it's a huge bummer. I'd like to run 7.3 too but I can't afford those POWER10 machines...

@bcallah why did they remove those drivers? Like, that seems.... really weird

@bcallah we're reinstalling 7.2TL4 to see if it has the same issue

Dr. Brian Callahan May 19, 2025

@freya Yeah, I'd be curious because it works without issue here. I'm using QEMU 10 I think? Whatever comes with the latest packages for Ubuntu 25.04.

@bcallah yup same here. on windows, since that's our fastest machine

@bcallah `installp -qaXFY -d . *`, gods that's `pkgadd -d . all`

@bcallah is AIX SVR4-based? we acn never remember

Dr. Brian Callahan May 20, 2025

@freya I believe so, yes.

@bcallah it has pkgadd(1)! cooool! ok, so if we build AIX packages they can be in the same format as our Solaris packages

Dr. Brian Callahan May 20, 2025

@freya Oh that's very interesting. I didn't even notice that. That may obviate the need for pkgsrc (but admittedly and perhaps biasedly, I do like pkgsrc).

@bcallah oh, same!

@bcallah we're thinking about porting FractalKit to AIX, though there's somewhat of less of a need of it than, for example, our work on getting a modern SNMP (Solaris+Nginx+MariaDB+Php) stack running on Solaris 10 SPARC

@bcallah wait what, did they *remove* pkgadd?

@bcallah welp, ok this is gonna be fun. installp -qaXFY -d . fractal.GNU-Nano.base

Apparently there's no nano in the AIX dnf toolbox thing. we're fixing that

@bcallah yoooooo! It is, and it has pkgadd and friends!