Hi Kenneth,
in our current solution we use pmaintcheck [1], which is a lightweight solution but uses a config file in the current version. We have a small wrapper that supplies Nagios with status messages. Anitya looks interesting but much more complicated. I admit that a message aggregator is nice since you'd have one place to see all the available updates - system and eb. But as far as I can see it needs a webserver running or at least a http endpoint. Although I like webservices that allow easy tracking I also know more conservative Sysadmins that do dislike those and would vote for having anitya optional. Hence, currently I would rather go for the easy solution using pmaintcheck -- adding an option-parsing to it -- than for the complete anitya because it doesn't need much of a setup and I don't have too much time at the moment. Best, Andreas [1] https://github.com/mrpdaemon/pmaintcheck _____ Von: easybuild-requ...@lists.ugent.be <easybuild-requ...@lists.ugent.be> im Auftrag von Kenneth Hoste <kenneth.ho...@ugent.be> Gesendet: Montag, 8. Mai 2017 09:59:36 An: easybuild@lists.ugent.be Betreff: Re: [easybuild] Software/easyconfigs update avail check Hi Andreas, On 05/05/2017 08:16, Henkel, Andreas wrote: > Hi, > > @Jens: Thank you very much for your detailed reply. I really appreciate it. > > Personally, I don't have a problem with all the easybuild packages since they are not opening up for root. I rather appreciate that users could built up their own eb on out clusterwide installation. And the time saving for installation is great (except if you make a bad choice and choose foss-2017a as default tool chain but now I know much more about eb because of all the modifications I had to make ;-) ) > > There was another interesting point raised about update cycles: what if something is misconfigured in the easyconfigs for blas for example which would lead to wrong results for the users using that lib? I know that this is not directly related to easybuild but wanted to ask anyway... > > About the update checker @Damian pointed to a related pull request (thank you!). Do I get it right that there is no such thing as checking for newer versions of installed software? The point why I'm asking is just because I'm thinking about diving into this. Thinking about something similar to apt update which simply lists available upgrades. Actually, we have some python-code that does this for our installed modules and sends its results to nagios/icinga. This would be more of an update notifier and don't do any action. If there isn't something like that yet I can have a look how to adapt our stuff to eb. Any pointer to a good place in the framework is appreciated. We have plans to leverage Anitya [1] to let EasyBuild query for available versions of a particular software packages. The idea would be that you could easily install the latest version of a particular software package, where EasyBuild figures out what the latest version is for you. For now, this is just an idea though. If you're up for diving into this, we can discuss this further (e.g. via a conf call). regards, Kenneth [1] https://github.com/release-monitoring/anitya
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