[slurm-users] Does latest slurm version still work on CentOS 6?

[Michael Robbert]

Cola,

You need to use the legacy spec file from the contribs directory:

ls -l slurm-18.08.5/contribs/slurm.spec-legacy
-rw-r--r-- 1 mrobbert mrobbert 38574 Jan 30 11:59 
slurm-18.08.5/contribs/slurm.spec-legacy

Mike

On 2/11/19 9:26 AM, Colas Rivière wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to update slurm to the latest stable version 18.08.5-2. Our 
> cluster uses CentOS 6.8 and updating it tricky because of Lustre support.
> According to https://slurm.schedmd.com/platforms.html, CentOS 6 is 
> still supported.
>
> However, `yum-builddep slurm-18.08.5-2/slurm.spec` fails, because 
> `slurm.spec` contains `BuildRequires: systemd` which is not available 
> on CentOS 6 (at least on my 6.8 apparently).
>
> Does slurm 18.08 work on mode recent versions of CentOS 6? Am I 
> missing something, or is the platforms page out of date?
>
> Thanks,
> Cola
>