perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Antoine Delvaux <>]

Dear Ralph,


I'll try to answer your questions, I understand there's a bit of confusion wrt
the packages present on our download site.

Le 25/08/09 14:09, Niederberger, Ralph a écrit :
> Which package do I have to install with rpm for the Web admin Interface?

At the moment the new package for the WebAdmin is unfortunately unavailable.

> On page http://downloads.perfsonar.eu/bundles/perfsonar-bundle-3.2/rpm/
> There are:
> 
> oppd-0.51-MDM_3.1.noarch.rpm
> oppd-WebAdmin-0.2-MDM_3.1.noarch.rpm
> oppd-mp-bwctl-0.51-MDM_3.1.noarch.rpm
> 
> All those seem to be related t0 MDM 3.1 and I do not understand why they are
> listed in the perfsonar-bundle-3.2 list.

Those are transitional packages.  With MDM-3.2 we changed the package names so
they now are more consistent.  For this change to be smooth when upgrading 
from
MDM-3.1 to 3.2, when using package management tools like yum or apt, we
introduced dummy packages only containing dependencies to the new ones.  
Those 3
packages are the dummy packages for BWCTL.

However they should only be present withing repositories, they'll be removed
soon from this download directory and you can ignore them.

> Furthermore I can find:
> 
> perfsonar-oppd-0.51-2.noarch.rpm
> perfsonar-oppd-mp-bwctl-0.51-1.noarch.rpm

Those are the new packages names and the one you need for BWCTL-MP. With the
WebAdmin interface we recommend that for now you keep the old version 
installed
(or you install old version along with those new packages).  It should work ok
although the new features introduced (mainly link with SQL MA) will not be
available in the WebAdmin.

Hope this clarifies confusion.

Best regards,

-- 
Antoine Delvaux                                    Systems Engineer
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