[daip] AIPS without rsync?

[Wes Young]

Do you have svn open?  If so we may be able to try an alternative.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu


On Jan 13, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Kimberly Engle writes:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 	I'm a sysadm at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and I
>> cannot get AIPS installed here because our ("misguided") network
>> people decided long ago that rsync was nasty and blocked it at
>> our firewall. (I pleaded with them over a year ago to unblock it
>> since ftp and cvs are both open, to no avail. I was able to get it
>> installed on that host because one of the network guys who has since
>> left GSFC temporarily opened the port for me for testing purposes.)
>>
>> 	So how can I get AIPS (binary version, not text) successfully
>> installed on desktops here without using rsync? Seems to me there's  
>> no
>> way around it at this point, considering the way the install.pl  
>> script
>> is written. I can send users home with instructions on how to get it
>> on their laptops, but it'd be nice to have a way for me to help them
>> get it installed here via a tarball that doesn't need rsync. BTW, in
>> this case and the last the installations were for Macs.
>>
>> 	This request is somewhat time-critical (the user wants AIPS
>> up and running before Wed 1/9), so any ideas or help would be most
>> appreciated.
>>
> Your e-mail is dated the 11th so the 9th is hard to do.
>
> I can write a DVD of 31DEC07 if you want which would have the binary
> load modules - the last time I did that was for someone in Algeria.  I
> guess GSFC is back in those non-technological days itself....
>
> Which Mac are we talking about - recent Intel Macs or older PPC Macs.
>
> Eric Greisen
>
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