Worker Node WN) metapackage

WN dependencies (APIs & clients), to deploy a Worker Node (WN) for High Throughput Compute.

The package relies on packages available in the following repositories:

• UMD
• EPEL

Building packages

Building the RPM

The required build dependencies are:

• rpm-build
• make
• rsync

# Checkout tag to be packaged
git clone https://github.com/EGI-Federation/wn-metapackage.git
cd wn-metapackage
git checkout X.X.X
# Building in a container
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/source -it centos:7
yum install -y rpm-build make rsync
cd /source && 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 wn.spec
  • Updating version and changelog in CHANGELOG
• Once the PR has been merged, publish a new release using GitHub web interface
  • Suffix the tag name to be created with v, like v1.0.0
  • Packages will be built using GitHub Actions and attached to the release page

History

This work started under the EGEE project. This is now hosted here on GitHub, and maintained by the EGI Federation.