gridinfo meta packages

This repository contains different meta packages for the BDII. BDII documentation is available at gridinfo documentation site.

• emi-bdii-site: Meta-package for Site BDII.
• emi-bdii-top: Meta-package for Top BDII.
• emi-resource-information-service: Meta-package for the resource information service.

Installing from packages

On RHEL-based systems

On RHEL-based systems, it's possible to install packages from EGI UMD packages. The packages are build from this repository, and tested to work with other components part of the Unified Middleware Distribution.

Building packages

Individual Makefiles allowing to build source tarball and packages are provided.

Building a RPM

The required build dependencies are:

• rpm-build
• make
• rsync

# Checkout tag to be packaged
$ git clone https://github.com/EGI-Foundation/gridinfo-meta-packages.git
$ cd gridinfo-meta-packages
$ git checkout X.X.X
# Building in a container
$ docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/source -it quay.io/centos/centos:7
[root@8a9d60c61f42 /]# yum install -y rpm-build yum-utils
# Move to the required package-specific directory
[root@8a9d60c61f42 /]# cd /source/emi-bdii-site
[root@8a9d60c61f42 emi-bdii-site]# yum-builddep -y emi-bdii-site.spec
[root@8a9d60c61f42 emi-bdii-site]# make rpm

The RPM will be available into the build/RPMS directory.

Preparing a release

• Prepare a changelog from the last version, including contributors' names
• Prepare a PR with
  • Updating version and changelog in
    • CHANGELOG
    • The related meta-package(s)
• Once the PR has been merged tag and release a new version in GitHub
  • Use of an arbitrary/global release version is required, as it covers all the meta-packages at once
  • All the meta-packages will be built using GitHub Actions and attached to the release page

History

This work started under the EGEE project, and was hosted and maintained for a long time by CERN. This is now hosted here on GitHub, maintained by the BDII community with support of members of the EGI Federation.