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The tension is between putting in new fixes and testing and certifying them. The CERN deployment people don't seem to have a procedure for accepting and verifying patches.If they had that then just putting them in the repository is, as you say, simple. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon George > Sent: 24 May 2005 11:55 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Sites not publishing accounting data > > Hi John, > > Basically I agree with you. It's just frustrating me no end that there > is such a simple way to address this but it isn't being done, at the > cost of dozens of site admins having to do more work themselves. It's > not just this one item which is probably easy to fix by hand. I would > like to establish the general principle that I stated at the end of my > last email and that I seem to keep banging on about at > meetings. To get > a working site, it shoudl not be necessary to do anything > beyond what is > written in the installation and (to be done) maintenance instructions. > The amount of hot air we have expended on this is far more effort than > it would have taken for someone to copy the new apel rpm into the lcg > updates dir and run the necessary yum and apt commands to > make it visible. > > Rant over, thanks to Jeremy for taking this up at the > EGEE/LCG workshop. > > Anyway, in practice I can assure you that at RHUL we are not sitting > back; we are really busy with other work, so the easier it is to have > the right software installed and correctly configured, the sooner (and > more often) we will be able to do it. > > Cheers, > Simon