perfsonar development work

[Jochen Reinwand <>]

On Thursday 21 February 2008 09:04, Nicolas Simar wrote:
> Jochen Reinwand wrote:
> > For both operating systems it might be necessary to install required
> > packages from the standard repository. Should we provide a list to make
> > it possible for the administrator to install these dependencies via yum?
>
> Would a user have to do this too?
> If no, then provide the list of packages that the administrator would
> have to deploy for you.
> If yes, then I suggest you provide the list of root command that needs
> to be run to install those packages.

Available packages depend a lot on how the system was installed. So you can 
normally not predict which packages will be available.
Normally you put something like the following in your documentation:
Make sure that the following packages are installed: .....
You have to install them before installing the RPMs of this software release. 
You can normally use "yum install <PACKAGE NAME>" for this.

Btw: For RedHat quite a lot of packages will be missing. Most likely we can 
fill the gap using Fedora packages available from typical package 
repositories.
Other services might have similar problems! At the moment I'm lucky that 
Roland has already created RPMs for bwctl, because we also need them. But for 
testing the CL-MP some more packages are needed. We will see...

greetings,
Jochen

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