Thanks Matt, offending article now marked:
* Note (23 July 2015 ):* This page is now obsolete. Please check
[https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/EMITarball].
This is now a standard message at the top of a wiki article to show that
the item is obsolete but kept for historical reasons.
Cheers,
Steve
On 07/23/2015 10:54 AM, Matt Doidge wrote:
>> 3) https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/OldEMITarball
>> Note: may be stale
>
> This page is so stale that if it was a baguette it would be hard
> enough to kill a man with.
>
> https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/EMITarball
>
> is the current tarball docs page. That one's more mouldy then stale!
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07/16/2015 02:37 PM, Catalin Condurache wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The decommissioning process of the 'gridpp.ac.uk' CVMFS space is about
>>> halfway, and it came to my attention the fact that sites are defining
>>> the CVMFS_REPOSITORIES variable at WN level. Whilst this variable was
>>> mandatory with cvmfs v2.0.X, this is not case with v2.1.Y.
>>>
>>> One current use for the variable is to monitor the repositories, so if
>>> still defined, the variable has to contain existing repositories,
>>> otherwise access errors are logged at Stratum-1 level. Therefore I
>>> would ask site admins to remove the 'gridpp.ac.uk' repository names
>>> from there, except the regional UK VO repositories (londongrid,
>>> scotgrid, southgrid, northgrid)
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you need more details.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Catalin Condurache
>>> RAL Tier1 CVMFS Service Manager
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Catalin Condurache
>>> Sent: 16 June 2015 16:21
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: please re-define VO_<voname>_SW_DIR variables
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Many of you are probably aware that currently identical CVMFS
>>> repositories are maintained within both 'gridpp.ac.uk' and 'egi.eu'
>>> domain spaces.
>>>
>>> As the plan is to continue only with the 'egi.eu', I am planing to
>>> stop publishing most of the *.gridpp.ac.uk CVMFS repositories (notable
>>> exceptions are the
>>> {northgrid,southgrid,scotgrid,londongrid}.gridpp.ac.uk repositories),
>>> and therefore I would like to ask site admins to re-define (where is
>>> the case) the values for the VO_<voname>_SW_DIR environment variables
>>> so they will point to the 'egi.eu' CVMFS space (and not
>>> 'gridpp.ac.uk').
>>>
>>> i.e. from old definition VO_MICE_SW_DIR=/cvmfs/mice.gridpp.ac.uk
>>>
>>> to the new definiton VO_MICE_SW_DIR=/cvmfs/mice.egi.eu
>>>
>>> or from VO_CERNATSCHOOL_ORG_SW_DIR=/cvmfs/cernatschool.gridpp.ac.uk to
>>> VO_CERNATSCHOOL_ORG_SW_DIR=/cvmfs/cernatschool.egi.eu
>>>
>>> Obviously, your CVMFS configurations need support for the 'egi.eu'
>>> domain. If this is not the case (less likely), please install
>>> cvmfs-keys-1.5-1 or better upgrade to cvmfs-2.1.20.
>>>
>>> There is no need to define new variables, but to change accordingly
>>> the existing ones (i.e. for the VOs each site is supporting) and
>>> definitely *do*not* change the existing definitions for
>>> VO_VO_NORTHGRID_AC_UK_SW_DIR, VO_VO_SOUTHGRID_AC_UK_SW_DIR,
>>> VO_VO_SCOTGRID_AC_UK_SW_DIR and VO_VO_LONDONGRID_AC_UK_SW_DIR (if any).
>>>
>>> Also because of the UK regional VO repositories (agreed to continue as
>>> part of .gridpp.ac.uk), please do not remove any settings related to
>>> this domain from your /etc/cvmfs/* configurations.
>>>
>>> Just to mention that I carried similar campaigns at other non-UK
>>> sites, and at that time I had been in contact with SGMs from the
>>> involved VOs, and they all agreed and were happy with the redefinition
>>> of VO_SW_DIR variables concerning their VOs.
>>>
>>> A tentative date to stop the publishing of the old domain is 30 June
>>> 2015, so could you make sure you'll have all in place by then? I will
>>> give a reminder during next Tuesday Ops meeting.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Catalin Condurache
>>
>>
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