Hi,
so what's the status quo now? If I want to install new nodes: which
version shall I install? SL4 (32 or 64 bit) or SL3, gLite 3.0 or 3.1?
There are some bad "issues" with the SL4 packages:
1. Dependency on CASTOR-client: this is only part of SLC4. Are we
forced to install SLC? IMHO everything should install fine with
pure SL coming from Fermi.
2. The need for external repositories like DAG and JPackage: It is
IMHO really bad practise to blindly trust external sources like
it is done now. You might want to do this on desktops - but on
servers? If you need external packages, put it into
RPMS.external.
To my mind the gLite-SL4 repos are not production ready by now. So I'm
really curious how the Management Board can decide to push the
deployment of SL4. They're actually right, but leaving the sites alone
and let them do fiddle around the problems is not a solution.
The current situation is really unclear to me. Some experiments like CMS
are pushing the sites to install SL4. Others still have major problems
with it. It is now just good luck to buy hardware that is able to run
SL3. In some months the same problem will arrive SL4 (new hardware
support for RHEL4 ends this year...). Did anyone ever tried to port
gLite to SL5?
Cheers,
Andreas
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