[Beowulf] batch systems connection

[Prentice Bisbal]

John,

That's correct. It in ~/rpmbuild now, so that you don't need to be root 
to install/build an SRPM.

I knew there was some way to use cpio to extract an RPM, too, but I 
didn't know the command. Thanks for sharing.

Prentice

On 05/29/2018 11:07 AM, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:
> Prentice - duuuh of course.   As I remember Redhat changed the place 
> where a source RPM places its source files.
> It was under /usr/src  I think it now unpacks locally under roots home 
> directory.
>
> Once can also unpack the files from an RPM using:
> rpm2cpio  packagename.rpm | cpio -idv
>
> I cant rememberif that exactly works with a source RPM, but it should.
>
> On 29 May 2018 at 16:51, Prentice Bisbal <pbisbal at pppl.gov 
> <mailto:pbisbal at pppl.gov>> wrote:
>
>     This is a bit round-about, but if you can only find the source RPM
>     (SRPM) , the SRPM should include the source tarball, so in theory,
>     you can install the SRPM, and then just take the source tarball
>     from there, and do what you want with it.
>
>     Prentice
>
>
>     On 05/29/2018 03:58 AM, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
>
>         Hi Mikhail,
>
>         if you are familiar with RPM: if there are source-rpm files
>         you should be able
>         to rebuild it on your system. That way you don't install
>         software which is not
>         managed by your package management system which might be of
>         advantage.
>
>         All the best from a currently wet London
>
>         Jörg
>
>         Am Montag, 28. Mai 2018, 14:45:54 BST schrieb Mikhail Kuzminsky:
>
>             Sorry, may be my question is not exactly for our Beowulf
>             maillist.
>             I have 2 small OpenSuSE-based clusters using different
>             batch systems,
>             and want to connect them "grid-like", via CREAM (Computing
>             Resource
>             Execution And Management)
>             service (I may add
>             also one additional common server for both clusters).
>
>             But there is no CREAM binary RPMs for OpenSuSE (Only for
>             CentOS7/SL6
>             on UMD site
>             //repository.egi.eu/2018/03/14/release-umd-4-6-1/
>             <http://repository.egi.eu/2018/03/14/release-umd-4-6-1/>).
>             I did not find:
>             where I can download source text of CREAM software ?
>
>             Mikhail Kuzminsky
>             Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry
>             Moscow
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