Re: [Condor-users] Condor + SUSE + rpm

[Alain EMPAIN <alain.empain@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kewley, J (John) wrote:
> > Hello John,
> >
> > I am using CONDOR exclusively on SuSE (8.2 and 9.0 9.1).
> >
> > I had just to install another version of CONDOR (6.7.2) to accomodate 
> > the kernel 2.6.x. (condor-6.6.6.6 schedd died on kernel 2.6.x)
>
>
> We are happily using 6.6.7
>
> SUSE 9.0 is a 2.4 kernel, not 2.6 (at least on our machines!)
>  
>
> > To install CONDOR 6.7.2, I just downloaded its RedHat 9 RPM, and with 
> > 'mc' I copied all the opt stuff to /home/grid/opt/condor-6.7.2 
> > (/home/grid is shared by nfs mount between all my nodes).
>
>
> I am not certain how this gets round the dependency problems with rpm.
>
> What advantage does mc give you?

MC allows to browse freely the RPM package like a file system.

I was just curious to see what was inside the RPM, and at which extend a 
quick analysis shows that a simple copy will do the job.

For ex, a uneasy installation of Oracle 8i (provided for RedHat, but 
installed on SuSE) was in fact very easily moved from one Linux 
distribution to another after the first install : just copy all the 
installed stuff, including the oracle libraries. I like to test this 
kind of short-cuts and to dissipate some foggy fears.

I used RedHat during the 4.x epoch, but I do not want to switch again to 
it _just because_ an application is said 'tested/designed for RedHat' ;-)

[evocating another 'designed for' labelling ...]

	Cheers,

	Alain


> cheers
>
> JK
>
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