Hi David,
I agree that this has to go further, but as a start we should agree on a
common way to publish Scientific Linux.
The most important thing is the sites stop publishing the kernel verison.
Laurence
David Groep wrote:
> Hi Laurence, *,
>
> With the many varieties of binary compatible RHEL version, itsn't this
> fine-grained selectivity going to make users frustrated? If
> you just want a "regular" RH Enterprise Linux 3 system, and you don't
> care who packaged it, you would still need to know about all
> varieties.
>
> What about setting GlueHostOperatingSystemName to "RHEL",
> GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease to "3" and then leave the one that
> we did not use yet (GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion) to the specific
> variety (SL, SLC, CentOS, WB, XOS, ...)
>
> But I also fully agree that standardization and agreement is better
> than any "pure" solution that is not adhered to. You are to
> arbitrate :-)
>
> DavidG.
>
> PS: What would be the labels for CentOS and XOS?
>
> Laurence wrote:
>
> > Please can all sites make sure that they are publishing
> >
> > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SL
> > for Scientific Linux and
> >
> > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SLC
> > for Cern Scientific Linux
> >
> > For the SL and SLC OS release
> > GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 3
> >
> > For the GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease, make sure that you are not
> > publishing the kernel version, doing this is just asking for trouble!
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Laurence
> >
> >
> > Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> >
> >> Hi *,
> >>
> >> As we're changing the main OS used I thought I'd see what people are
> >> publishing to identify their OS. As usual there seems to be limited
> >> agreement, at least for SL:
> >>
> >> ldapsearch -x -h lcgbdii02.gridpp.rl.ac.uk -p 2170 -b o=grid | grep -i
> >> operatingsystemname | sort | uniq -c
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Debian
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Fedora
> >> 2 GlueHostOperatingSystemName: RedHat
> >> 84 GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat
> >> 3 GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SL
> >> 3 GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SLC
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Scientific
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Scientific Linux
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Scientific_Linux
> >>
> >> Note the two instances of RedHat, I guess the first one has a trailing
> >> space. Also:
> >>
> >> ldapsearch -x -h lcgbdii02.gridpp.rl.ac.uk -p 2170 -b o=grid | grep
> >> -i operatingsystemrelease | sort | uniq -c
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.4.20-18.7.cernsmp
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.4.20-28.7
> >> 13 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.4.20-28.7smp
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.4.20-30.7.cernsmp
> >> 3 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.4.20-30.7.legacy
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.4.20-30.7.legacybigmem
> >> 30 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.4.20-30.7.legacysmp
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.4.20-30.7smp
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.4.20-35_39.rh7.3.atsmp
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL.cernsmp
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.4.22
> >> 2 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.4.24
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.4.27
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 2.6.5-1.358smp
> >> 2 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 3
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 3.0
> >> 4 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 3.0.3
> >> 3 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 3.03
> >> 29 GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 7.3
> >>
> >> Not much agreement here even on whether this identifies the kernel
> >> version
> >> or the OS version. And:
> >>
> >> ldapsearch -x -h lcgbdii02.gridpp.rl.ac.uk -p 2170 -b o=grid | grep
> >> -i operatingsystemversion | sort | uniq -c
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 0
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 1 SMP Fri Feb 20 09:38:55 PST
> >> 2004
> >> 30 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 1 SMP Fri Feb 20 10:12:55 PST
> >> 2004
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 1 SMP Fri Jan 30 14:27:50 CET
> >> 2004
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 1 SMP Mon Jul 5 12:10:48 CEST
> >> 2004
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 1 SMP Sat May 8 09:25:36
> EDT 2004
> >> 13 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 1 SMP Thu Dec 18 11:18:31 EST
> >> 2003
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 1 SMP Thu Feb 19 12:36:51 CET
> >> 2004
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 1 SMP Thu Feb 19 17:02:04 CST
> >> 2004
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 1 SMP Thu Jun 12 12:27:49 CEST
> >> 2003
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 1 SMP Thu Jun 24 15:00:33 EDT
> >> 2004
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 1 Thu Dec 18 11:23:36 EST 2003
> >> 3 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 1 Thu Feb 19 23:52:43 PST 2004
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 2 SMP Thu Feb 19 14:22:10 CET
> >> 2004
> >> 26 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 3
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 3 SMP Tue Aug 24 16:27:48 CEST
> >> 2004
> >> 1 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 5 Fri Nov 21 14:31:00 CET 2003
> >> 12 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: 7.3
> >>
> >> It's hard to see how this could be any use at all ...
> >>
> >> Stephen
> >>
>
>
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> David Groep
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