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> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Gordon said:
> I think the VM solution is better. glite never supported more than one
> node per system so there was always a risk that even if you got it
> working, some future patch would introduce incompatible dependencies
> from the two node types.
>
> EMI plans to remove/reduce this but I don't think they have yet.
As far as I know EMI have only one repository and the node lists aren't versioned, so in effect they have enforced version-independence unless EGI decide to undo it. All releases between the major yearly versions are supposed to be backward-compatible. Whether it works in practice depends on how well everything is tested ...
Stephen
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