[slurm-users] Re: Why is Slurm 20 the latest RPM in RHEL 8/Fedora repo?

2024-01-31 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen via slurm-users
On 1/31/24 09:02, Bjørn-Helge Mevik via slurm-users wrote: This isn't answering your question, but I strongly suggest you build Slurm from source. You can use the provided slurm.spec file to make rpms (we do) or use "configure + make". Apart from being able to upgrade whenever a new version is

[slurm-users] Re: Why is Slurm 20 the latest RPM in RHEL 8/Fedora repo?

2024-01-31 Thread Bas van der Vlies via slurm-users
I agree with Bjørn to build it from source to have more control. We do it with tarballs like schedmd suggests so we can also easily switch between versions without deleting/installing rpms/debs. On 31/01/2024 09:02, Bjørn-Helge Mevik via slurm-users wrote: This isn't answering your question,

[slurm-users] Re: Why is Slurm 20 the latest RPM in RHEL 8/Fedora repo?

2024-01-31 Thread Josef Dvoracek via slurm-users
My impression is, that there are multiple challenges why it's not easy to create good-for-all recent slurm RPM: - NVML dependency - different sites use different NVML lib version with varying update cycle - pmi* deps - some sites (like mine) is using only one reasonable recent openpmix, I

[slurm-users] Re: Why is Slurm 20 the latest RPM in RHEL 8/Fedora repo?

2024-01-31 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik via slurm-users
This isn't answering your question, but I strongly suggest you build Slurm from source. You can use the provided slurm.spec file to make rpms (we do) or use "configure + make". Apart from being able to upgrade whenever a new version is out (especially important for security!), you can tailor the