There has been lots of chaos and misunderstandings about this so I
want to clarify a couple of things:
* I insist on having the repository and the RPMs posted at the
xrootd.org website for the benefit of Joe Random Hacker who happens to
venture to xrootd.org and just wants to use the "bloody thing". He
will neither know nor care about the OSG (nor CERN for that matter).
Whether the experiment production users use this or not does not
concern me at all. If they want they can, if they don't I don't care.
* I have repeated this around a gazillion of times already but there
still seems to be some confusion about this: there is not such thing
as the OSG RPM, the OSG uses the RPM + some rpm of their own for the
gridftp. And this is actually important because discrepancies here
cause debugging nightmare.
Lukasz
2011/6/7 Andrew Hanushevsky <[log in to unmask]>:
> I think that is what OSG is planning to do for now. They may (just may)
> create rpms that refer to the xrootd.org repo as prereqs but only if
> xrootd.org can host multiple versions. That's what I got from the OSG
> meeting this morning.
>
> Andy
>
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Brian Bockelman wrote:
>
>> Hi Doug,
>>
>> I think the idea of having a single yum repository won't work because:
>> 1) If the OSG can't control the precise release version of xrootd in the
>> xrootd.org repo, they can't certify the supplemental RPMs ws working.
>> 2) Xrootd.org doesn't want to slow down their release process to wait on
>> OSG Q/A.
>>
>> Basically, I don't want to unnecessarily tie the two independent groups
>> together: I don't think anyone would be happy. Let me suggest an
>> alternative:
>>
>> 1) Xrootd.org has an official release repository containing the latest,
>> greatest release. This is targeted to the broadest community possible.
>> 2) OSG has a release repository containing the set of RPMs they support.
>> This is targeted to OSG sites.
>>
>> Each repository provides a separate service to a separate audience; I
>> think tying them together will be painful for both parties. The above
>> suggestion follows the well-tested upstream/distribution model Linux uses.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> On Jun 6, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Doug BENJAMIN wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Andy and Dirk,
>>>
>>> What is the policy statement about the xrootd.org yum repository?
>>> Will there be one? If so on what time scale? I ask because as ATLAS
>>> Tier 3 technical coordinator, I have to make a recommendation to my
>>> ATLAS colleagues world-wide for those who want to install xrootd.
>>> Right now I know of two "official" repositories, OSG and xrootd.cern.ch.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Doug Benjamin
>>
>>
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