Subject: Re: SECURITY: inn
From: Kevyn Shortell (kevyn@apple.com)
Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 15:17:36 MDT
I sit corrected, there's a rpm binary for 4.1.4, but it's not from
IBM so you'll have to go download it =)
http://www.rpm.org/platforms.html
Kevyn
>Well there's your answer, RPM is package format native to linux
>systems, as far as I know, it doesn't run or install on AIX.
>
>Your out of luck if your running AIX and wanting to install RPM's.
>
>Kevyn
>
>
>At 4:57 PM -0400 9/3/99, Christopher F. Baum wrote:
>>Yes, I'm afraid so, it is an IBM RS/6000 still running AIX (4.2.1.0, soon
>>to be upgraded to 4.3 since 4.2 is not Y2K)...Unfortunately most of the
>>software running on it does not have linux-ppc versions. Linux for Intel,
>>yes, but not Linux PPC. I doubt if it is in the list of RS/6000s that run
>>YDL anyway--it's a Model C20, not very new.
>>
>>Kit Baum
>>Boston College Economics
>>
>>--On Fri, Sep 3, 1999 1:47 PM -0700 Kevyn Shortell <kevyn@apple.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Ok, let me ask the obvious question, are you being literal when
>> > you say "AIX box", as in it's still running AIX? Or are you refering
>> > to a IBM RS/6000 machine, currently running Yellowdog Linux =)
>> >
>> > Kevyn
>> >
>
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