NorduGrid ARC v0.4.2 Release Notes
May 20, 2004
This is yet another holiday (Ascension) release. The new 0.4.2 release of the
stable branch of the ARC middleware by NorduGrid has been uploaded to the
repository. Go to the download
section from the NorduGrid web page, or proceed directly
to the repository.
This release mainly fixes various bugs and should be backward compatible with
0.4.1. Users of 0.4.1 are
advised to upgrade to this release.
Changes are:
- The grid-cert-request problem from the standalone
which requested Estonian certs by default
- Add German DFN CA certs to the standalone package
- Add distribution information to the RPM %{distribution} macro
- Optimize checksum algorithm
- Add requirement on Globus RPM
- Less debug messages – reduce job log size
- Bug fix in scan-pbs-job (found on Sigrid)
- Map the NorduGrid VO members just after all the other
groups (bug #339)
- Support arbitrary attribute to indexing services
- Make timeout work even if execution hung somewhere in external code.
- Optimize http-like transfers by increasing the buffer size
- The queue+jobs+users-pbs.pl is sensitive about the order of lines in the
queue configuration file. This fix orders the lines correctly so that the
"comment" field is picked up.
- The build directory should not be required to be writable during
installation (bug #257).
- Change the meaning of the PENDING state and fix a possible mail storm bug
- Fix for problem when looking for curl (bug #347)
Details on patches:
checksum.patch:
- Optimize checksum algorithm
- grid-manager/misc/checksum.cc
- grid-manager/misc/checksum.h
globus_dep.patch:
- Add requirement on Globus RPM
- INSTALL
- nordugrid.spec.in
logfix.patch:
- Less debug messages – reduce job log size
- grid-manager/https/client/client.cc
scanpbs.patch:
- Bug fix in scan-pbs-job (found on Sigrid)
- grid-manager/LRMS/pbs/scan-pbs-job.in
nordugridmap.patch:
- Map the NorduGrid VO members just after all the other
groups (bug #339)
- vo/nordugridmap
- vo/nordugridmap.conf
rls.patch:
- Support arbitrary attribute to indexing services
- grid-manager/datamove/datapoint.cc
- grid-manager/datamove/datapoint.h
- grid-manager/datamove/datapoint_rc.cc
- grid-manager/datamove/datapoint_rls.cc
timeout.patch:
- Make timeout work even if execution hung somewhere in external code.
- grid-manager/datamove/datamove.cc
bufsize.patch:
- Optimize http-like transfers by increasing the buffer size
- grid-manager/datamove/datahandle.cc
queue-comment.patch:
- The queue+jobs+users-pbs.pl is sensitive about the order of lines in the
queue configuration file. This fix orders the lines correctly so that the
"comment" field is picked up.
makelinks.patch:
- The build directory should not be required to be writable during installation
(bug #257).
- userinterface/Makefile.am
gm_states.patch:
- Change the meaning of the PENDING state and fix a possible mail storm bug
- grid-manager/jobs/states.cc
findcurl.patch
- Fix for problem when looking for curl (bug #347)