OK, so I skipped rebuilding a newer RPM version (for now) and I’m currently rebuilding anything that fit’s into app-dev according to IBM …

The list reads like this:

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$ ls -al ~/app-dev
autoconf-2.59-1.aix5.1.noarch.rpm
automake-1.8.5-1.aix5.1.noarch.rpm
binutils-2.14-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
bison-1.875-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
coreutils-5.2.1-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
cpio-2.5-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
diffutils-2.8.1-1.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
flex-2.5.4a-6.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
gawk-3.1.3-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
gcc-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
gcc-cplusplus-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
gdb-6.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
libgcc-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
libstdcplusplus-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
libstdcplusplus-devel-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
libtool-1.5.8-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
m4-1.4.1-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
make-3.80-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm

OK, I’m not exactly rebuilding these old versions, I’m actually using their old specs to compile newer versions of these. I’m currently at coreutils-6.7, which really takes ages. But will see about the rest.

Oh, and btw .. if anyone happens to search for a way to extend a logical volume on AIX, use chfs.

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$ chfs -a size=+4 /opt

That’s what I used to enlarge the logical volume containing /opt about 4 (what kind of unit is that ?).