Just to add to that. I didn't attend the gdb obviously but
I spoke to Oliver back at the WLCG workshop and he says the
binaries run on SL4 but source doesn't even compile, and the
plan is that the software - if and when it builds on SL4 -
becomes glite 3.1.
So if that is true, sites *could* upgrade to SL4 and still
run glite. Not that that is necessarily a recommended action
but sometimes people need to consolidate the OS they run.
Test it first though. Caveat emptor and all that.
On a related note, I spoke to some NGS admins about DPM
(incidentally, evaluation report from ETF expected "this week").
They are running RHEL4 or Solaris or other things and are not
necessarily eager to run yet another linux version - portability
should be flagged as an issue. Although NGS have no plans ATM to
run DPM, the report is expected to suggest it as an
<adjective-to-be-determined> way to disk-enable storage.
-j
-----Original Message-----
From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Coles, J (Jeremy)
Sent: 08 February 2007 12:28
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Status of gLite for SL4
Dear All
No general SL4 release will be available for some time (March/April at
the earliest). Markus Schulz gave an update talk at the GDB yesterday
which will be of interest to you:
http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=1&materialId=slid
es&confId=8469
I know that several sites have now deployed some of the workarounds to
have gLite (WNs) working under SL4 or RHEL4. It is going to be useful to
share experiences in this area and it'll be a topic on the agenda
(http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=11981) for the next
UKI meeting on Wednesday 14th February at 11:00.
If you want to look at the current build status for any platform you can
see it here:
http://egee-jra1-integration.web.cern.ch/egee-jra1-integration/cruisecon
trol.asp
Regards,
Jeremy
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