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

[Jason Bacon]

On 2/11/19 10:26 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 missing something, or is the platforms page out of date?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
>
We install via pkgsrc and the 18.08 package (currently in pkgsrc-wip) 
builds fine on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7.

Cheers,

     JB

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