Hi Laurence,
the tag doesn't tell you what packages are installed. As sys admin I might
install a base release or a release with also the development tools or
all the packages. The output of lsb_release will not change.
cheers
alessandra
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Laurence wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We touched upon this issue during a recent Glue Schema discussion.
>
> The common consensus is that the tag published by the information system
> should be defined to be the output of a command such as what Steve T
> suggested "/usr/bin/lsb_release -d". At
> The value published in the information system should not be used to try
> and work out if your application can run at a site. With most VOs, the
> software manager will install the VO software on the site and publish a
> tag in the RuntimeEnvironment so that the VOs jobs can then be steered
> to that site. The information could be used to help the VO manger
> install the software but they should run some kind of probe job at the
> site to check if what they require is on the worker node.
>
> Laurence
>
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