Thanks David!

Dear WLCG repo managers,

With the help from our DPM colleagues we can now move ahead with the new N2N and vomsxrd rpms. Can you help put the latest rpms in the WLCG repo, and please keep the existing (old) N2N and vomsxrd rpms as they are still needed by the DPM sites. 

Many thanks,
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> On Jan 27, 2015, at 2:23 AM, David Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 27 Jan 2015, at 00:53, Yang, Wei <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> We urgently need non-DPM sites to upgrade to xrootd 4.1 as it includes an important fix of memory leak in the xrootd client (for xrootd proxy). I wonder under this situation, do you mind that the WLCG repo makes the new N2N rpm and VOMSXRD rpm available? They depend on xrootd 4.1 so if xrootd 4.1 is not available from EPEL, DPM sites won't automatically get the new N2N and VOMSXRD rpms. At most, they get complains in yum update that the dependency of new n2n and vomsxrd rpms can not be satisfied, which they can just ignore.
>> 
>> We have thought of your other suggestions about packing .so and -4.so in one rpm and make them depend on only xrootd 3.x. We actually made it work a long time ago before we adapted the current two rpms (.rpm and -compat.rpm) mechanism. We would prefer to avoid going back and forth in between these two packaging methods which will likely confuse the sites.
> 
> Hi Wei,
> 
> I see; then it’s ok for us if the latest N2N and vomsxrd are added to the wlcg repo now so that the sites suffering the memory leak can get the fix.
> 
> If we can also keep the previous versions of the n2n and vomsxrd in the wlcg repo, then for dpm we can give a workaround if there are any sites who need to install new nodes before xrootd 4 is in epel stable, by specifying the previous version number of n2n or vomsxrd when they install.
> 
> Yours,
> David
> 
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