Hello,
On 09/05/2013 06:04 PM, Henry Nebrensky wrote:
>>> There is a tarball UI in cvmfs...
>
> Is there a way to look at that directly?
>
> (From a Windows web browser that doesn't have my certificate, so I can't
> get into GGUS, etc.)
I don't think so, but the gist of the ticket is that cms wanted a
tarball UI in cvmfs, which got thrown my way as the tarball guy. They
asked for an EMI2 SL5 one (as it would most likely work on SL6 too, and
EMI2 is well known). The tarball can be found in the grid.cern.ch repo,
and has an example set up script:
/cvmfs/grid.cern.ch/emi-ui-2.9.0-1_sl5v1/etc/profile.d/setup-cvmfs-ui.sh
Although the ticket has stalled a little as it's hit the "I built it, so
you guys can test it" phase.
>
> I ask as MICE got stuffed badly a few years back when gLite broke thir
> API and refused to fix it... I'm extremely wary of depending on a CVMFS
> distro unless it commits to providing the different releases in parallel.
As we develop this further there's nothing to stop us keeping older
versions (in fact that's what we've been doing with the cvmfs wn
tarball). We'd probably move to where we have a "current" version
symlinked to the latest stable release, but there would be nothing
stopping you specifying a specific UI version.
Also anything made available in cvmfs could (and probably will) be made
available to download as a normal tarball. As whilst we're talking about
other OS, there's a chance that we could create tarballs for them too.
Cheers,
Matt
A man to whom tarball no longer sounds like a real word.
>
> Thanks
>
> Henry
>
>
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Christopher J. Walker wrote:
>> On 02/09/13 10:35, Matt Doidge wrote:
>>> Weighing in a bit late on this.
>>>
>>>> Another issue with a central UI service is that it's more of a problem
>>>> for users to send their jobs and also recover their output - it would
>>>> all have to go through the central service which would be a bit of a
>>>> pain, certainly for production level stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Out of interest, would it be possible for us to provide a version on
>>>> CVMFS instead? Then users can just mount that and be confident it's up
>>>> to date, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Just an idea :)
>>>
>>> Ta da:
>>>
>>> https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=96030
>>>
>>> There is a tarball UI in cvmfs, although it's only set up for the big
>>> three + dteam. You need to enable the grid.cern.ch repo to have a gander
>>> at it. There's worker nodes in that there repo too.
>>>
>>> I'm interested in what Steve was proposing, as I can easily roll that
>>> into the tarballs - making them much more complete.
>>
>> That would be great. It probably takes a lot of the hassle out of
>> keeping a UI up to date with changes. It will only work on SL machines,
>> I suspect (though perhaps it's worth checking whether it works in
>> Debian).
>>
>> Chris
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