NorduGrid Downloads - Repository Information

Repository information

Yum and apt repositories are available for several systems. NorduGrid RPM packages and DEB repositories are signed, and in order to verify them you must install the NorduGrid GPG key:

For rpm based distributions like Red Hat and Fedora

rpm --import http://download.nordugrid.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-nordugrid

For deb based distributions like Debian and Ubuntu

wget -q http://download.nordugrid.org/DEB-GPG-KEY-nordugrid.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Repositories are available for stable releases (stable) and for packages undergoing testing (testing). Testing repository must always be used with the stable one enabled.

Important: The NorduGrid repositories for RedHat Enterprise Linux depends on the EPEL repositories which must also be part of the Yum configuration.

Yum repository configuration

The Yum repository configuration file should look like:

[nordugrid]
name=NorduGrid - $basearch - stable
baseurl=http://download.nordugrid.org/repos/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/stable
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.nordugrid.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-nordugrid

[nordugrid-testing]
name=NorduGrid - $basearch - testing
baseurl=http://download.nordugrid.org/repos/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/testing
# Always make sure nordugrid stable repo is enabled
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.nordugrid.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-nordugrid

IMPORTANT! You can use yum groupinstall feature when installing ARC server and client:

yum groupinstall "ARC Server"
yum groupinstall "ARC Client"

In graphical interfaces to Yum, these groups will appear in the "Grid" section. You can find the package lists on the groups page.

up2date configuration

In order to use the Red Hat up2date utility, add to its repository configuration lines like:

yum nordugrid http://download.nordugrid.org/repos/fedora/11/i386/stable
yum nordugrid http://download.nordugrid.org/repos/fedora/11/i386/testing

Make sure to enable/disable repositories accordingly (to be on the safe side, stable must be always enabled)

Since up2date does not support remote group files the group operations are not readily available for the external repositories. Here is the optional recipe to add the NorduGrid groups:

# Retrieve groups file
wget http://download.nordugrid.org:/repos/redhat/el4/i386/stable/repodata/comps.xml
# Copy the file to the correct location
# (see: /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateComps.py)
cp -p comps.xml /usr/share/comps/i386/nordugrid_comps.xml
Add the lines: 
compsFiles[comment]=Groups files
compsFiles=/usr/share/comps/i386/comps.xml;/usr/share/comps/i386/nordugrid_comps.xml;
to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date. Now you can use: 
up2date --show-groups
in order to see the available groups. In order to install a group do: 
up2date @"ARC Client"
Note that the group file /usr/share/comps/i386/nordugrid_comps.xml should be updated if it is changed on the server.

apt configuration for Debian and Ubuntu

APT sources:
Page last modified: 2010-07-30 10:40
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