Support for _core_ packages for Fedora Core 6 i386 and x86_64 should be pretty complete, it would be good if someone could test it.
Fedora Core 7 on the other hand, I have not touched since Test 2, so consider it experimental at best. Cheers, Bernard On 4/12/07, Michael Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fedora Core 6&7 support is in trunk to some degree, but I do not believe is > complete. If you want to spend some time fixing it up, then that would be > great. The path we are taking with GSoC is to package for 5.0 and then > convert those packages later, because we have not finalized our process with > the new packaging system in trunk. The documentation in the developer wiki > http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/DevelDocs > should be current. > > As far as the Bioinformatics package go, Bernard and I have been kicking > this idea around for a while, but neither of us have had the time to make > much progress on it. It was our plan to use the BioBrew rpms, at least as a > starting point, we have even spoken to the maintainers of that project and > they don't mind at all. I would also like to add some additional software, > especially something which adds a user interface of some sort to the system. > > I am mentoring several projects for GSoC this summer, so I will be fairly on > task with OSCAR anyway, so I would like to assist with this project. > > > On 4/12/07, Mattias de Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am a BSc (bioinformatics) student and for a project i am going to setup > a 'biological' cluster computer. I've got a few question regarding OSCAR > setup and package creation. > > As Linux distribution i'm going to use Fedora. What is the latest version > of Fedora that is (fully) supported? I think that FC5 is still the latest > officially supported distribution, but on this mailing list i read some > threads about installing upon FC6 and FC7. What is the best version to use? > > To make the cluster more biological i am planning to install software like > BLAST, ClustalW, contig assembly programs, etc... (with hopefully MPI > support). I saw on the GSoC2007 projects page that a similar project is > listed (OSCAR Bioinformatics Toolkit), so i suppose such system is still > needed, because two years ago another student as worked on this ( > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg04121.html > ). Am i right? So is there some starting material available and what were > the problems he experienced? > > > > I also looked at creating packages for OSCAR, but the howto i found on the > website seems a bit outdated (2004). I think i read on the mailinglist that > the packaging system for OSCAR 5.0 (and 5.1) has changed. Where can i find > updated instructions for creating packages? Isn't it also possible to > install software on the nodes from a tarball with the C3 tools? > > For 'the other cluster toolkit', ROCKS, there exists a roll with > bioinformatic RPMS (BioBrew). Although i prefer OSCAR, are these RPMS not > compatible with OSCAR? ( > ftp://ftp.bioinformatics.org/pub/biobrew/srpms/4.1/) > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Mattias > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Oscar-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
