On 09/06/2013 12:05 PM, Matt Doidge wrote:
>
>> On 09/02/2013 10:35 AM, Matt Doidge wrote:
>>> I'm interested in what Steve was proposing, as I can easily roll that
>>> into the tarballs - making them much more complete.
>>>
>>
>> I'm still thinking of the requirements for this. Can you
>> elaborate on what you have alluded to in the sentence
>> above? (i.e. that's a polite way of saying "what exactly
>> do you mean by that?")
>
> I simply meant that if there was a nice, neat way to create the vomsy
> bits of the UI (outside of yaim) then I could roll it into the tarball
> (to make it really "fire and forget"- unpack it, point your
> environment at it and job done- look even the VO stuff is set up).
> Chris has already alluded to the idea of tarring up the vomsdir/vomses
> bits and making them available to people who have done rpm installs.
>
> Hope that answers your question.
It does. But it would be helpful if you could answer some more questions
(I'm sorry to be a bore on Friday afternoon).
Anyway, from what you have said, you make a tarball of the UI. Users
could then install it on their systems. I assume you do that by taking
each newly released binary rpm, unpacking the rpm somehow, and taring
the tree with (maybe) a bit of tweaking inbetween. And you put the
result in some known location. You also install (untar) said tar balls
in a certain location within cvmfs so that some users can directly use a
"tarball" release via cvmfs without even resorting to tar. So, my
questions are (1) is this what you do (2) what are the "locations" of
the products and (3) is this already summarised anywhere? It's all OK,
but next you need the vomsdir/vomses bits to complete this idea. So here
is my proposal:
a) I'll take your newest UI tarball, and put it on a system here, and
I'll make some process to merge the vomsdir/vomses bits into your work
automatically. I'll test it, and then I'll hand the process to you.
b) Then you can build it into your standard tarball procedure. There's
no point in me getting involved with that (it would get confusing - it's
one person's work).
So please let me know those locations so I can get cracking.
Cheers,
Steve
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