Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Graeme A Stewart said:
> All I would expect from the experiment's RPMs would be the service
> scripts ("claims.cgi"). Apache and MySQL need to come from
> the usual SL3
> sources and be part of the VO box infrastructure so that
> experiments can
> rely upon them being there - but they are not responsible for them.
Unfortunately, experience suggests that the experiment code will end up
tied to specific versions of the tools - different for the different
experiments and possibly even for different components within an
experiment ... and if you think that it would be enough to have a policy
"there must be no version dependence" I can only say that it has never
worked up to now :(
> we probably do need something which allows
> ideas to be tried out on a VO box so see if they work.
But they should be tried out in a VO box on a closed testbed, not on the
production system ...
Stephen
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