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I am in favour of this, with the caveat that I am not one of those who would have to do any work. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of owen maroney > Sent: 24 May 2005 12:52 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Sites not publishing accounting data > > Hi all, > > Well, if we've learned one thing over the last year is that if LCG > doesn't have the manpower/inclination to do something, we can > often just > do it ourselves... (and often push LCG into finding the > manpower/inclination on the way) > > So, is it possible for us to create a GridPP apt/yum/up2date > repository > where we can put all the fixes and extra rpms GridPP wishes? > > Adding rpms to this repository and keeping it up to date should be > responsibility of the UK/I ROC (ie. the Deployment Team - Tier 2 > Co-ordinators, Steve Traylen, the various specialist support > posts etc.) > Verifying it has the correct rpms would probably involve the > UK testzone > sites. > > regards, > Owen. > > Alessandra Forti wrote: > > > Hi Peter, > > > > I've done the saem for manchester and it works. > > > > cheers > > alessandra > > > > On Tue, 24 May 2005, Peter Gronbech wrote: > > > >> Hi Simon and all, > >> I agree with your point that the LCG release should work > as is, or there > >> should be an updates dir to point yum at. In the mean time > this is how I > >> do it, just for info.... > >> > >> > >> I make a local mirror of SL304 and LCG as per the wiki entry here: > >> http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gocwiki/Mirror_LCG_Packages > >> and use yum with yaim as described here: > >> http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gocwiki/Using_yum_to_install_LCG > >> > >> I then added a separate tree called oxford for extra bits > like ganglia, > >> yumit, java and the latest apel rpm. > >> So my yum repository is /localdisk/yum, as below, If then > type yum-arch > >> oxford > >> that produces the headers so that the oxford bit can be added to my > >> yum.conf. > >> Then I can just do a yum -y update on all my nodes and I > pick up the > >> apel rpm. > >> > >> Cheers Pete > >> > >> [root@t2lcfg yum]# ls -al > >> total 24 > >> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Apr 29 10:32 . > >> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 20 10:15 .. > >> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 20 13:17 lcg > >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 19 17:10 oxford > >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 21 07:53 SL > >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 26 10:48 yaim > >> [root@t2lcfg yum]# ls -al oxford > >> total 36092 > >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 19 17:10 . > >> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Apr 29 10:32 .. > >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 582662 Apr 29 13:02 > >> edg-rgma-apel-3.4.44-1.noarch.rpm > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 582658 May 6 11:11 > >> edg-rgma-apel-3.4.45-1.noarch.rpm > >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 105471 May 4 12:54 > >> ganglia-monitor-core-gmond-2.5.7-1.i386.rpm > >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 19 17:10 headers > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35602188 Apr 15 13:23 > >> j2sdk-1_4_2_08-linux-i586.rpm > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9756 Apr 29 10:36 > >> yumit-client-2.0.2-1.noarch.rpm > >> > >> > >> yum.conf > >> [root@t2mon02 install-scripts]# more /etc/yum.conf > >> [main] > >> cachedir=/var/cache/yum > >> debuglevel=2 > >> logfile=/var/log/yum.log > >> pkgpolicy=newest > >> tolerant=1 > >> exactarch=1 > >> > >> [sl303server] > >> name=SL 303 main > >> > #baseurl=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/303/$b > asearch/SL > >> /RPMS/ > >> > baseurl=http://t2lcfg.physics.ox.ac.uk/yum/SL/3.0.4/$basearch/SL/RPMS/ > >> > >> [sl303errata] > >> name=SL 303 errata > >> > baseurl=http://t2lcfg.physics.ox.ac.uk/yum/SL/3.0.4/$basearch/ > errata/SL/ > >> RPMS/ > >> > >> > >> [oxfordserver] > >> name=Oxford > >> baseurl=http://t2lcfg.physics.ox.ac.uk/yum/oxford/ > >> > >> [sl-lcg] > >> name=LCG packages > >> baseurl=http://t2lcfg.physics.ox.ac.uk/yum/lcg/2_4_0/sl3/ > >> > >> [sl-lcg-ca] > >> name=LCG CA packages > >> baseurl=http://t2lcfg.physics.ox.ac.uk/yum/lcg/ca/ > >> > >> > >> [sl-yaim] > >> name=LCG Yaim Software for > >> baseurl=http://t2lcfg.physics.ox.ac.uk/yum/yaim/sl3 > >> > >> > >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Peter Gronbech Unix Systems Manager Tel No. : > 01865 273389 > >> Department of Particle Physics Fax No. : > 01865 273418 > >> University of Oxford, > >> Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK E-mail : > [log in to unmask] > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes > >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon George > >> Sent: 24 May 2005 11:06 > >> To: [log in to unmask] > >> Subject: Re: Sites not publishing accounting data > >> > >> Hi Jeremy, > >> > >> at the last tb-support meeting, as far as I recall, it was > confirmed > >> that the accounting package in LCG 2.4.0 does not work, which was > >> thought likely to be the reason why some sites (e.g. RHUL) > had followed > >> the installation instructions but not got accounting working. > >> > >> I asked why fixes considered necessary (like this) are not > put in to the > >> apt/yum rpm respository for LCG software, so they can be upgraded > >> automatically or by site admins just running the standard update > >> command. We are already doing this to get o/s updates and > CA updates. It > >> has to be by far the easiest and most standard way to > distribute both > >> important bug fixes and security fixes. I don't see why > this needs to be > >> any more complicated. Has there been any progress on this? > >> > >> I still maintain that I should not have to go beyond the 2.4.0 > >> installation instructions (and maintenance instructions > when they are > >> available) to get my site functioning as fully as LCG > needs. If that is > >> not true, the the problem is with LCG 2.4.0, not my site! > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Simon > >> > >> Coles, J (Jeremy) wrote: > >> > >>> Dear All > >>> > >>> At the last TB-SUPPORT meeting we reviewed sites not publishing > >> > >> accounting data but reiterated the need for this to be > collected so that > >> we understand usage of the resources. > >> > >>> > >>> The following sites are still not producing any data. > Please could the > >> > >> relevant Tier-2 coordinator follow up with their sites to > understand any > >> problems: > >> > >>> > >>> hp-bristol > >>> csTCDie > >>> Cavendish-LCG2 > >>> LivHEP-LCG2 > >>> QMUL-eScience > >>> RHUL-LCG2 > >>> UCL-HEP > >>> > >>> I understand that there are some special cases here. If there are > >> > >> problems with the site (publishing) we need to understand > how to improve > >> the situation. Where everything is set up correctly but > jobs are just > >> not arriving we need to follow up with the VOs. > >> > >>> > >>> Many thanks, > >>> Jeremy > >> > >> > > > > -- > > ******************************************** > > * Dr Alessandra Forti * > > * Technical Coordinator - NorthGrid Tier2 * > > * http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/aforti * > > ******************************************** > > -- > ======================================================= > Dr O J E Maroney # London Tier 2 Technical Co-ordinator > > Tel. (+44)20 759 47802 > > Imperial College London > High Energy Physics Department > The Blackett Laboratory > Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BW > ==================================== >