gridengine in EPEL
Christopher
chrismcc at pricegrabber.com
Mon Sep 21 19:30:22 UTC 2009
Hello...
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 21:16 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On Fri, September 18, 2009 2:10 pm, Christopher wrote:
> > Hello...
> >
> > I've been using a few minor packages from EPEL (like clamav) for a
> > while. Now I am about to start using a package that we rely heavily on
> > (Sun gridengine) so I would like to help maintain the EPEL gridengine
> > package to keep it current.
>
> I'm the current gridengine maintainer. The problem I face with gridengine
> is that updates (at least for the qmaster) are not "automatic". Generally
> you want to shut down the server, back up the database, install the
> update, run an update script that may or may not work, and then start it
> up. This generally doesn't lend itself well to RPM updates.
>
> The way I've been handling gridengine in Fedora is to put the most recent
> version into each new Fedora release, figuring people are prepared for
> changes going from one release to another.
>
makes sense.
> It might make sense to sync similarly with EL point releases (5.3 -> 5.4),
> but it doesn't seem like EPEL has anyway to do this. A big failing I
> think at the moment.
>
> I have no idea if anyone is actually using the gridengine packages in
> fedora. I have to admit that I personally build the current src.rpm for
> all of the OS versions (CentOS 5.3, Fedora 10 and 11) that we have and
> manage the update manually.
>
> Help and suggestions welcome.
>
Cool. We will probably start using 6.2u3 from your gridengine/devel cvs
area. I'll send some patches I have for that area dealing with the init
scripts.
> - Orion
>
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