Hi Jeff,
For all the releases we do publish the release notes.
http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/releaseNoteLCG-2_3_1.txt
Laurence
Jeff Templon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there an LCG-wide ChangeLog file? This would be very handy for
> discovering what has changed between releases, for example changed RPM
> dependencies.
>
> apt-get and yum are excellent tools, but they are no substitute for
> being explicit about what has changed in a release. even if alternate
> RPM installations are not directly supported, there should be a clear
> and accurate record of what's been changed from release to release
> (without each site having to make their own CVS diff and study the
> results).
>
> J "574 would have been 852 if I had been here" T
>
> On Mar 7, 2005, at 11:00, Louis Poncet wrote:
>
> > It why we prefer to use (and proide the support) for apt-get and yum.
> > You don't need to touch anything it will work by itself.
> > If you need a local mirror you can use our script repgen.pl in the
> > folder server of yaim.
> >
> > http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/documentation/Apt-
> > Yum-Repositories
> >
> > It will be put in the wiki wiki pretty soon the be a part of the
> > documentation.
> >
> > Lp
> >
> > On 7 mars 05, at 10:06, David Groep wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> When upgrading to LCG2.3.1 we found an unexpected new dependency for
> >> the
> >> RB machine. This will break the system for everyone that will try to
> >> 'just upgrade' the RPMs in place and leave the configuration unchanged
> >> as
> >> was advertized in the release notes for LCG2.3.1 :-(
> >>
> >> On the RB, the edg-replica-manager client tools need to be installed
> >> for match making, but the new version of the edg-replica-manager rpm
> >> has
> >> an new dependency now on "lcg_util", which in turn triggers
> >> dependencies
> >> on CASTOR-client, LFC-client, GFAL-client and CGSI_gSOAP_2.3.
> >>
> >> So, for those of you who tried to use html2updates to have the RPMs
> >> updated
> >> from (a mirror of) the LCG2.3.1 repository, you will need to add these
> >> dependencies explicitly in the configuration of the RB machine:
> >>
> >> "/software/packages"=pkg_repl("CGSI_gSOAP_2.3","1.1.3-2_sl3","i386");
> >> "/software/packages"=pkg_repl("GFAL-client","1.4.0-1_sl3","i386");
> >> "/software/packages"=pkg_repl("LFC-client","1.0.1-1_sl3","i386");
> >>
> >> "/software/packages"=pkg_repl("CASTOR-client","1.7.1.5
> >> -1.longname","i386");
> >> "/software/packages"=pkg_repl("lcg_util","1.1.0-1_sl3","i386");
> >>
> >> and then have these updated using the result of
> >>
> >> $QUATTORDIR/bin/html2updates.pl \
> >> --name=lcg231 \
> >> --url=http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/download/
> >> RpmDir_i386-sl3/i386-sl3-LCG-2_3_1
> >>
> >> The rest seems to work OK (on the worker nodes there was already a
> >> dependency on lcg_utils and the rest.
> >>
> >> This problem will hold for everyone who explicitly needs to install
> >> RPMs and
> >> wants to know what is installed on which machine, so it may be of
> >> interest
> >> to other on the ROLLOUT list as well....
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> DavidG.
> >>
> >> PS: also the semantics have changed in the 'minor upgrade', as Simone
> >> already pointed out.
> >>
> >> --
> >> David Groep
> >>
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> >>
> > --
> > Louis Poncet
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> > Problem >> RTFM then google it !
>
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