On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Graeme Stewart wrote:
> Rolf Rumler wrote:
> > Le 21 oct. 2005, à 19:35, Rod Walker a écrit :
> >> Is there a central place where we can list the Atlas requirements on WN
> >> software. A few sites choose to strip down the rpm list to what they
...
> > As others suggested in this thread, it seems that the VO part of the
> > operations portal (or CIC portal) is a good place. For the moment,
> > nearly all the staff is on the 4th EGEE conference, so please be
> > patient, we'll contact you directly on the "what and how" ASAP.
>
> This is doubtless the correct place to publish the information, but as a
> practical measure for sites can we turn that information into a metarpm,
> e.g., lcg-UI-atlas.
>
> If we put this into the apt repository then the YAIM setup scripts can
> ensure that each WN has the right packages for supported VOs - and that
> list can be changed with an updated rpm if necessary.
Should Atlas be allowed to modify "LCG" RPMs?
Anyway, the list of dependencies shouldn't be changing at all often. What
about publishing the list from the CIC in a machine-readable form and
having YAIM look at that - at least then there's only one such list...
Once said packages have been installed, APT should be able to keep them
updated...
Henry
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