Re: [slurm-users] Exclude Slurm packages from the EPEL yum repository

2021-02-03 Thread Jürgen Salk
Hi Phil, assuming that all sites maintaining their own Slurm rpm packages must now somehow ensure that these are not replaced by the EPEL packages anyway, why wouldn't it be possible, in the long run, to follow the Fedora packaging guidelines for renaming existing packages? https://docs.fedo

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm - sacct: error: slurm_persist_conn_open_without_init: failed to open persistent connection to host:localhost:6819: Connection refused

2021-02-03 Thread Marcus Wagner
Hi Zainul, there seems to be a hostname problem, your node is called "smaster" as far a I can see, the slurmdbd log complains about the server host "smater". Best Marcus Am 02.02.2021 um 14:05 schrieb Zainul Abiddin: Hi All, I have done slurmdbd configuration and while i am trying to run acco

Re: [slurm-users] Exclude Slurm packages from the EPEL yum repository

2021-02-03 Thread Brian Andrus
Wow, This is getting so ridiculous that my email program has started putting this thread in junk... The spirit of Linux is to give you the tools so you can do things how you want. You have the tools, do not expect someone else to come over and plant/maintain your garden. Just because they ca

Re: [slurm-users] Exclude Slurm packages from the EPEL yum repository

2021-02-03 Thread Relu Patrascu
On 2021-02-03 10:32, Brian Andrus wrote: Wow, This is getting so ridiculous that my email program has started putting this thread in junk... The spirit of Linux is to give you the tools so you can do things how you want. You have the tools, do not expect someone else to come over and plan

Re: [slurm-users] Hidden partition visibility issue

2021-02-03 Thread Christopher Benjamin Coffey
Hah, sigh yes that would be just fine ... *blushes*. Thanks! __ Best, Chris -- Christopher Coffey High-Performance Computing Northern Arizona University 928-523-1167 On 1/21/21, 11:10 PM, "slurm-users on behalf of Marcus Wagner" wrote: Hi Christopher, doesn't it suffice to us

Re: [slurm-users] Exclude Slurm packages from the EPEL yum repository

2021-02-03 Thread Ryan Novosielski
My main point here is that essentially upgrading someone from, for example, SLURM 20.02 to SLURM 20.11 is not desirable, and that’s why upgrades between major versions, IMO, should not happen automatically. There’s a whole section of the documentation about how to do this properly, and I’m not s

Re: [slurm-users] Exclude Slurm packages from the EPEL yum repository

2021-02-03 Thread Michael Jennings
On Wednesday, 03 February 2021, at 18:06:27 (+), Philip Kovacs wrote: > I am familiar with the package rename process and it would not have > the effect you might think it would.If I provide an upgrade path to > a new package name, e.g. slurm-xxx, the net effect would be to tell > yum ordnf-ma

Re: [slurm-users] Exclude Slurm packages from the EPEL yum repository

2021-02-03 Thread Philip Kovacs
I am familiar with the package rename process and it would not have the effect you might think it would.If I provide an upgrade path to a new package name, e.g. slurm-xxx, the net effect would be to tell yum ordnf-managed systems that the new package name for slurm is slurm-xxx.  That would make

Re: [slurm-users] Exclude Slurm packages from the EPEL yum repository

2021-02-03 Thread Philip Kovacs
What you are describing is implemented in the EL ecosystems as module streams.  Streams are setup by maintainersto correspond to major version trains of software.  Users can then select the stream they want and can change streamsas desired (unfortunately this is often not trivial), without upgra