> This "tarball" issue is tiresome, isn't it? We need to commit to the
> necessity for tarballs, or quit with the idea. If there is a necessity,
> then it becomes a MUST, not a SHOULD. There is no middle ground, AFAIKS.
Tiresome is an understatement! Does anyone know if the issue is lack of
manpower, lack of (perceived) priority or, as with glexec, some
difficult technical gotcha?
I think that anyone who could get away from tarballs has done (I believe
Birmingham leaped off of this sinking ship), the ones that are left
*need* it, as they're dealing with shared clusters where at best a
normal install could cause major headaches with integrating with local
user workloads, at worst they simply wouldn't be allowed to install it.
As we have done before it will be worth us tarballers getting together
and figuring out how to tackle this - a problems shared is a problem
divided by N.
IIRC the "needy" tarballs sites are IC, Lancaster, and ECDF. I recall
QMUL having some tarball resources but I could have imagined that. Is
that all the tarballers?
Cheers,
Matt
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>> Hi
>>
>> How hard is it to make this tarball install?
>> Does anyone know who to contact who would know the steps normally done.
>>
>> I object to the "do-it-youself" attitude - but if its easy then I may be
>> willing to give it a crack at ECDF...
>>
>> Wahid
>>
>> On 13 Sep 2012, at 13:39, Ewan MacMahon wrote:
>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>>>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wahid Bhimji
>>>>
>>>> Just a question - sorry if it has been covered before. Are any of these
>>>> EMI2 sites using the WN tarball. Does it work?- where could we get it
>>>> from?
>>>> (preferably SL6 as ECDF will be likely be making the change in one
>>>> step).
>>>>
>>> There isn't a tarball yet, but apparently it's on the cards. From this
>>> presentation at the GDB:
>>>
>>> http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=9&sessionId=2&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=155072
>>>
>>> It says:
>>>
>>> "A group of willing sites have agreed to install the EMI2/SL5/64bit WN
>>> and make queues available
>>> - SL6 will follow
>>> Uses the EMI testing repository
>>> - Updates can be immediately produced
>>> * Bypassing EMI release process
>>> - A full client release (tarball etc.) will happen after WN validation"
>>>
>>> So, no tarball now, tarball later.
>>>
>>> Ewan
>>>
>>
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