Re: [Condor-devel] Is Redefining OpSys a Good Idea?

[Douglas Thain <dthain@xxxxxx>]

All -

I love static linking, application virtualization, and apple pie, but
any solution that requires the user to take some positive action is
unlikely to work in practice  :(

Defining OpSys to be much more specific (RHEL6 as opposed to LINUX)
makes it more likely that the user will get a machine compatible with
the submitting machine when they follow a simple hello world example.
The experts will figure out how to make the requirements expression
longer when they need to.

I'll add some thoughts to the wiki page to that effect...

My $.02 -

Doug



On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Is OpSys hard coded anywhere that would prevent this from working?
>>>
>
> IIRC, OpSys is not hard-coded and can be over-ridden in condor_config.
>
> However, please take a look at the below URL Nick sent - it describes the
> changes to OpSys and friends we propose doing in the very near future. We
> would love folks (Todd has images of Doug and Ian's big brains in his head)
> to leave a comment on the ticket saying if you think the proposal will leave
> things in a better or worse state, and/or any additional thoughts/edits.
>  Open source is a community effort, yada yada....
>
> Thanks,
> Todd
>
>>> Does anyone have a better solution to dealing with the Linux mess?
>>
>> See https://condor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=2366
>>
>> -Nick
>>
>
>
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