Ilja,
Anyway, if you want to run current gLite version on SL(C)4, it is possible
and it works very well, including with experiments SW. I posted a few
months ago what you had to do on LCG-ROLLOUT, basically installing in
addition to SL4 (in my case it was 64-bit) a few RPMs coming from SL3.
Probably my post on the list was for LCG 2.7.0 but I can give you an update
for gLite.
If you are using Quattor (or plan to do it !!!), it is even simpler as
gLite3 on SL4 comes out of the shelf...
Michel
--On mardi 10 octobre 2006 14:04 +0300 Ilja Livenson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ok, thanks to all of you, who answered!
> Will be waiting then :)
>
> cheers,
> Ilja
>
> Jeff Templon wrote:
>> Hi Ilja,
>>
>> first a request, please refer to ports to RHEL4 not SLC4. SLC4 is the
>> CERN specific version of Scientific Linux which is a derivative of
>> RedHat Enterprise. If the "porting" efforts -- and even here I would
>> prefer not porting, but "making portable to", I hope that the "ported"
>> version also continues to build and run on RHEL 3.x -- are aimed at
>> RHEL then it is likely that the software runs effortlessly not only on
>> the derivative SLC4, but also other derivatives in use in EGEE/LCG.
>>
>> whew. OK. On to your question: this gets discussed every month at
>> the Grid Deployment Board and other places. You can see e.g. Kors
>> Bos' introductory slides at
>>
>> http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a057710
>>
>> see slide 8. About the October 31st release, what I recall is that
>> this will be a compatibility mode release, capitalizing on some work
>> done by a couple of Tier-2 sites, enabling the RHEL-3-built software
>> to run in compatibility mode on RHEL-4-based boxes. Someone from SA3
>> will probably pipe up and provide more details at some point.
>>
>> For true RHEL-4-built gLite, my understanding is that this is going to
>> take a while, not so much because of gLite, but because of the
>> underlying VDT distribution, which has never been built on RHEL-4.
>> There are issues with the C++ code, the C++ compiler in RHEL4 is much
>> stricter than that in RHEL3.
>>
>> J "you pick, smiley or sad face on that last one" T
>>
>> Ilja Livenson wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I was wondering - when is the approximate deadline for porting glite
>>> to slc4? So that it would be possible to install middleware without
>>> too much dependency hacks?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Ilja
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