From: Christian Holm Christensen (cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 15:45:26 EDT
Hi Flemming et al, "Flemming Videbaek" <videbaek@sgs1.hirg.bnl.gov> wrote concerning RCF upgrades [Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:47:29 -0400] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hi > I know we are all busy with quite different things. > > There is an 'upgrade meeting scheduled for Wednesday afternoon (2-3 pm) > The point is to talk about > a) progress in testing the RH 8.0 and 9.0 machines Bjorn (sys op at NBI) and my general experience is, that one should wait for Red Hat x.1 rather than jumping into Red Hat x.0 straight away, as x.0 always has child-diseases. That said, we should get onto a newer system ASAP. <blabber> Why don't they consider using Debian GNU/Linux instead? It's much easier to maintain than Red Hat, and much more stable (heck, even the `testing' branch is more stable than Red Hat :-) </blabber> > b) Provide a list of services, packages tht we need on the (particluar) rcas > Partial list > compilers, perl, python2.2, autotools (also 1.4 ?), mysql (what version?) > rootd,.. > others? Compilers: * GCC 3.2 or 3.3 (probably available at that time) * Intel C++ compiler * GDB Interpretors: * Perl - it's a given :-) * ... the rest I don't have any preferences for Libraries: * XFree86 4.2.x run-time and developer libraries + headers (in particular the OpenGL and libfreetype stuff) * libmysqlclient (what ever version) * LDAP for GRID solutions * GSL Services: * MySQL server on brahms-db0 * rootd - that's a can of worms to say the least. To do that really effectively, we should get the RCF guys to have `rootd' controlled by `xinetd' (see the `rootd' man page, and the RPM stuff in the ROOT source tree). The easiest way to accomplish that, is to install ROOT on the system (in `/usr') via a set of RPMs (see the README/INSTALL file in the ROOT source tree). It needn't interfere with user installations, provided that people know how to set their PATH environment variable. To this end, it would probably be a good idea to have allow `sudo' access for some BRAHMS user. * LSF or OpenPBS. * LDAP * CVS server. Rather than insisting on people using AFS to access our CVS repositories, we could use a CVS server. * Have the alias `www.brahms.bnl.gov' point to `pii3.brahms.bnl.gov'. * A search engine on our private pages. This is a MUST! I can't believe that after 4 years of running this hasn't happened yet. Other stuff: * The MS True Type Fonts installed somewhere on the system. * Autotools: - Autoconf 2.53+ - Automake 1.7+ - Libtool 1.5+ There's probably a lot more stuff, but that all I could remember off the top of my head. > Please comment so Hiro+I can be prepared. Hope that the above helps. Yours, ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | ------------------------------------------------------------- | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 _| DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 24 61 85 91 _| Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 305 ____| Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm | |
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