And we know off-piste is a lot more fun, are you volunteering Ewan?
2009/3/6 Ewan MacMahon <[log in to unmask]>:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: GRIDPP2: Deployment and support of SRM and local storage
>> management On Behalf Of brian davies
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: FROHNER Akos <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 2009/3/6
>> Subject: Re: Clarification over DPM for SL5 and 1.7.x versions.
>>
>> On Mon, 2009-03-02 17:04:28 +0000, Davies, BGE (Brian) wrote:
>> > Hi after two separate threads. I would like to get some
>> clarification.
>> > From from DPM-users-forum I gathered that the 1.7.X release for DPM
>> > disk server was quite close to rpm creation.
>> > I have to admit my understanding was that this was on SL5/SLC5.
>>
>> I wrote on dpm-user-forum list that we are (developers) are running
>> internal tests on SLC5 packages. We even had that for v1.7.0
>> http://glite-dm.web.cern.ch/glite-dm/slc5/x86_64/RPMS.glite/
>> however we found some problems, so we fixed them for DPM v1.7.1
>> Actually you can find release candidate (they have 'rc' in the
>> RPM version) packages of DPM v1.7.1 there too.
>>
> So, in a nutshell, DPM 1.7.1 packages exist, and are thought to run
> correctly on SL5, they just haven't gone through the certification
> process[1]. So if someone were prepared to go slightly off-piste, they
> could install DPM 1.7.1 on SL5 and expect it to work, today?
>
> Next question - would a DPM 1.7.1 on SL5 pool node be expected to work
> with the current gLite release of the head node?
>
>
> Ewan
>
> [1] Like the significant chunks of stuff we're supposed to pull from
> DAG and jPackage etc. which also haven't been anywhere near a
> certification process.
>
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