Dr. Brian CallahanMay 17, 2025

A wild #blog post appears!

I revived pkgsrc on AIX.

(Yes, I already sent a PR to NetBSD.)

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250516.html

#linux #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #aix #ibm #solairs #illumos #pkgsrc #opensource #freesoftware

I revived pkgsrc on AIX - Dr. Brian Robert Callahan

Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩May 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
Show threadDr. Brian CallahanMay 18, 2025
@freya Yes, but pkgsrc is supposed to have code to notice and do the right thing.
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩May 18, 2025
@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?
Show threadDr. Brian CallahanMay 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).

Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩May 19, 2025
@bcallah we'd olve to run 7.3, but they removed the virtio drivers and fucked up running it in kvm
Show threadDr. Brian CallahanMay 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...
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩May 19, 2025
@bcallah we're reinstalling 7.2TL4 to see if it has the same issue
Show threadDr. Brian CallahanMay 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.
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩
@bcallah alrighty. install is going pretty fast, like, weirdly fast for cross-arch emulation. we're going to reboot from the CD, grab the volume group, null out fsck64, reboot, set up tz, auth, network, install openssl and openssh, grow /opt and /var, install dnf, sync;sync;sync;reboot, and see if it comes back up
May 20, 2025 at 12:17amWeb