Update Pythia8 Flat Configuration Files

[aperloff]

Update the Pythia8 configuration files which flatten the pThat distribution. This would bring the configuration files in line with #19668 and fix a problem with some runTheMatrix tests.

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @aperloff (Alexx Perloff) for master.

It involves the following packages:

Configuration/Generator
GeneratorInterface/Pythia8Interface

@efeyazgan, @perrozzi, @thuer, @cmsbuild, @davidlange6, @govoni can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@ghellwig, @alberto-sanchez, @agrohsje, @mkirsano, @Martin-Grunewald this is something you requested to watch as well.
@davidlange6 you are the release manager for this.

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[aperloff]

Is there any way we can have cmsbuild check the RelVal tests which were failing before?

[Dr15Jones]

please test workflow 5.6

[cmsbuild]

The tests are being triggered in jenkins.
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/jenkins/job/ib-any-integration/21643/console Started: 2017/07/20 20:41

[cmsbuild]

+1
Tested at: d7c6926
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-19843/21643/summary.html

The following merge commits were also included on top of IB + this PR after doing git cms-merge-topic:
97d9ccd
You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-19843/21643/git-log-recent-commits
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-19843/21643/git-merge-result

[cmsbuild]

Comparison job queued.

[Dr15Jones]

The workflow 5.6 did succeeded.

[perrozzi]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next master IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request requires discussion in the ORP meeting before it's merged. @davidlange6, @smuzaffar

[cmsbuild]

Comparison is ready
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-19843/21643/summary.html

Comparison Summary:

• You potentially added 5 lines to the logs
• Reco comparison results: 0 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 23
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 2346597
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 15152
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 2331279
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 166
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• Checked 93 log files, 14 edm output root files, 23 DQM output files

[davidlange6]

+1