Tuesday, August 08, 2006

VO Software

We got a ticket from LHCb about a missing RPM on our reinstalled cluster.

It's long been my opinion that this needs to be addressed by having VO specific meta-packages: lcg-lhcb RPMs with all of their dependencies. Otherwise it's almost impossible to find out what a VO needs. A manual list on the CIC portal would be a step forward, but it's too much to do this by hand for multiple VOs.

1 comment:

Graeme Stewart said...

It happened again - this time the really non-obvious libg2c was missing (it's in the gcc-g77-ssa) package.

I checked on the CIC portal, but there was no link to any list of LHCb software requirements.