NielsLiisberg
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3 months ago Hello Ravisankar,
Thanx for the feedback.
first - I would ( and we do so) configured your yum on our IBM i partitions to look into other repos. Then you have yum ( or DNF) to do all the hard job.
next - Else you can use my "mums" project and tweek it as you like - make a fork of it.
In both cases, however, that requires that the binaries in whatever repo is compatible with the AIX versions on IBM i that PASE provides. And that - IMHO - is a little try-and-error.
The main reason for project "mums" is: IBM can not just publish just any OSS because of legal reasons. However, using "mums" you are not publishing rather using OSS - and that is ok.
On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 4:43 AM Ravisankar Pandian @.***> wrote:
Hi @NielsLiisberg https://github.com/NielsLiisberg, While we already have ibmi-base repo and this awesome "mums project", I was curious to look out for other possible repositories that we can include in IBMi. And I happened to look into this arch-linux based repository crafted for ppc64 architecture.
I was wondering if it would be possible to include/port some of the available packages in this repo (esp from ppc64 architecture)?
https://repo.archlinuxpower.org/base/
I tried yum-config-manager --add-repo https://repo.archlinuxpower.org/base/ , but this repository's directory structure needs to be tinkered accordingly in order to make it work. And then it occurred to me that you implemented a different way altogether to get 3rd party packages into IBMi using a shell script! So I thought of asking you, which I shall ask nowhere else.
What do you think it takes for porting the above repository into IBMi? That way we can get some awesome packages such as MongoDB (which I still can't install in IBMi in 2024)
Thank you, Ravi.
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Hi @NielsLiisberg, While we already have ibmi-base repo and this awesome "mums project", I was curious to look out for other possible repositories that we can include in IBMi. And I happened to look into this arch-linux based repository crafted for ppc64 architecture.
I was wondering if it would be possible to include/port some of the available packages in this repo (esp from ppc64 architecture)?
https://repo.archlinuxpower.org/base/
I tried
yum-config-manager --add-repo https://repo.archlinuxpower.org/base/, but this repository's directory structure needs to be tinkered accordingly in order to make it work. And then it occurred to me that you implemented a different way altogether to get 3rd party packages into IBMi using a shell script! So I thought of asking you, which I shall ask nowhere else.What do you think it takes for porting the above repository into IBMi? That way we can get some awesome packages such as MongoDB (which I still can't install in IBMi in 2024)
Thank you, Ravi.