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On 12/3/13 8:14 PM, Maarten Litmaath wrote: > Hi all, > >> Can you try a solution like this : >> - yum remove gridsite-libs >> - disable all EMI repos >> - yum install gridsite gridsite1.7-compat >> - re-enable EMI repos >> - install EMI ui or EMI wn > > That recipe may provide helpful information, but we cannot propose this > as the solution for the WN, whose installations are done through fabric > management systems (for a UI this might be tolerable). > >> The EPEL package provides a compatibility layer for gridsite 1.7, it >> should completely replace the need of the gridsite version of EMI in >> theory. > > There are other EMI-2 products depending on particular GridSite rpms; > we would need to have them all tested with changed sets of rpms; > since EMI-2 is already in the security support phase, we do not want > to go through such a "re-certification" at this stage. Instead, > I think we should discover what were the last installable versions > of the UI and the WN, and update the EMI-2 repos as needed so that > those versions will work out of the box... as I mentioned I have available the previous/last-installable versions of gfal packages. I will do some testst these days to understand what is the minumum number of packages that should be put back in EMI 2 repos, for SL6. As there are no issues with the EMI-2/Sl5 version I will not touch those repos. Cristina -- Cristina Aiftimiei Ist. Naz. di Fisica Nucleare - Padova Address: via F. Marzolo, 8 - 35131 Padova - ITALY Phone: +39.049.967.7362 Mobile: +39.3460230488