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/$basearch/SL
/RPMS/
baseurl=http://t2lcfg.physics.ox.ac.uk/yum/SL/3.0.4/$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
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-----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
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