On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:01:14AM +0100 or thereabouts, Tim Barrass wrote:
> Sorry John, that reminds me-- I wanted to make a comment but the
> discussion (and the mic) went elsewhere, and then I ran out of time and
> had to go.
>
> You asked if it might be possible for the experiments to pack their
> agents/services for easy install via rpm. I would say this is possible,
> but with issues:
>
> Taking the example of PhEDEx, our local CMS guys take time fiddling
> small glue scripts that allow PhEDEx to access whatever local
> combination of storage tech and transfer tool exist. We find that there
> is significant variation in site setups that mean that we can't simply
> provide 2 or 3 out-of-the-box solutions.
Move forward a bit and assuming all sites have DCache or DPM which do of
course vary a little still what else is a local configuration?
Steve
>
> I just raise this is it might be a complicating issue for easy
> installation of services.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
> On 29 Sep 2005, at 10:15, Gordon, JC (John) wrote:
>
> >Considering the heat in the VO Box discussion on this list I was
> >surprised that more wasn't raised during the discussion on Tuesday.
> >
> >This is probably your last chance to get the result we want.
> >
> >After this workshop, complaints within GRidPP will not carry much
> >weight.
> >
> >John
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