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Just to retake this hijacked thread... :-) The installation procedure Matt described works fine with 2.7, we don't see problems with glite, at least on CE and WNs. The problem is defining non-middleware packages in the kickstart file. A minimal approach doesn't work and we haven't seen any requirement list from the VOs. For those using kickstart what do you have in your @packages list ? eg. %packages --resolvedeps @ apt-rpm @ development-tools %post Peter Barry MacEvoy ([log in to unmask]) wrote: > Are you insane ?! I mean that in the nicest possible way, but you'll be > lucky to get the software to install and configure flawlessly via > the recommended path of apt and yaim, let alone what you're suggesting. > > Perhaps it's just the persistent horrors of the WMS that make me > sceptical... > > Barry. > > > > > > > > On Fri, 26 May 2006, Matt Doidge wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 11:36:21 +0100 > > From: Matt Doidge <[log in to unmask]> > > Reply-To: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes > > <[log in to unmask]> > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Glite WN tarball- extra packages needed? > > > > Hello, > > We here at Lancaster have been looking investigating our options for the Glite-3.0 upgrade. We'd like to use the redistributable tarball for our worker nodes, and plan to upgrade by using a clean install on each WN with the latest SL3 version, and having all the GLite gubbins installed at the same time (all through the use of a cunningly written kickstart file). > > > > What I'm asking is are there any other packages (beyond those in SL3 or the tarball) that would be needed to be installed to make our WNs "complete". For example, at the moment our worker nodes when installed use apt to get the XFree86-devel package at the request of atlas. There is a "common dependencies" tarball that can be downloaded along with the glite WN one, does anyone have any experiance with how complete this tarball is? > > > > Also I've had little luck finding documentation for the tarball (both through trawling the glite pages and consulting the Oracle of Google), so if anyone could point me towards any that would be grand. Any other advice with using the tarball or writing our kickstarts also gratefully recieved, I never pass up on free wisdom. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Matt > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Barry MacEvoy > High Energy Physics Group > Imperial College London > Blackett Laboratory > Prince Consort Road > LONDON SW7 2BW > England > > T: +44 20 7594 7802 > F: +44 20 7823 8830 > M: 07767 323871 > > http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/cms/people/based_at_imperial.html > http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/e-science/people/macevoy.html > --------------------------------------------------------------