perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Stanley Gilliam <>]

Right on, thanks for the help Mark.

 

From: Mark Feit <>
Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2024 12:49 PM
To: Stanley Gilliam <>; Szymon Trocha <>
Cc: Bruce Henry <>;
Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Perfsonar install

 

Stanley Gilliam writes:

 

Thanks for the input, if I understand correctly I just need to download this “Codeready Builder” repo and things should work for the most part?

 

That should fix the problem.  It’s part of RHEL, so all you should need to do is enable it.  I did some light testing with RHEL 8 and 9 while porting some of the more-difficult parts of perfSONAR to Rocky and Alma, which we do support.  My anecdotal experience is that all three are bug-compatible everywhere except areas like this one where there were trademark problems.  Can’t really lend much more support than that; I happened to know the answer to this one off the top of my head.

 

Or are you recommending a different OS entirely? 

 

The official answer is that we officially recommend what we officially support.  :-)

 

None of the perfSONAR development partners are Red Hat shops, nor is most of the user community, so we don’t put resources into supporting RHEL.  If you visit our News page at https://www.perfsonar.net/news.html, there are links to a statements on what OSes we support from last year and 2021.

 

NB:  All three major EL8 distributions will run out of active support by the end of May.  We’ll probably drop support for the two we support within a couple of feature releases, so it’s probably time to think about upgrading to something based on EL9.    Alma and Rocky are officially-supported if you want to stay in the EL-derived universe.

 

--Mark