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

[Colas Rivière]

Thank you everyone, I successfully updated slurm using slurm.spec-legacy.

Cheers,
Colas

On 2019-02-11 11:54, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> Also, make sure no 3rd party packages installed software that installs 
> files in the systemd directories. The legacy spec file still checks 
> for systemd files to be present:
>
> if [ -d /usr/lib/systemd/system ]; then
>    install -D -m644 etc/slurmctld.service 
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/systemd/system/slurmctld.service
>    install -D -m644 etc/slurmd.service 
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/systemd/system/slurmd.service
>    install -D -m644 etc/slurmdbd.service 
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/systemd/system/slurmdbd.service
>    %if %{slurm_with cray}
>       install -D -m644 contribs/cray/slurmsmwd/slurmsmwd.service 
> %{buildroot}/%{_unitdir}/slurmsmwd.service
>    %endif
> elif [ -d /etc/init.d ]; then
>    install -D -m755 etc/init.d.slurm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/init.d/slurm
>    install -D -m755 etc/init.d.slurmdbd 
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/init.d/slurmdbd
>    mkdir -p "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/sbin"
>    ln -s ../../etc/init.d/slurm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/sbin/rcslurm
>    ln -s ../../etc/init.d/slurmdbd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/sbin/rcslurmdbd
> fi
>
> At my site, we are using a software package that supports both RHEL6 
> and RHEL7 using the same RPM, so they install the startup files for 
> both systemd and SysV Init at the same time. This will result in 
> /usr/lib/systemd/system existing on RHEL6 systems. Yes, this a bad 
> practice that could be fixed with a conditional somewhere in the RPM 
> post-install script, or just maintaining two different RPMS for each 
> RHEL major version #, but it's a commercial packag, and this is what 
> I'm stuck with.  As a result, when I build Slurm using the legacy spec 
> file, it will still build the systemd unit files and not the SysV  
> init scripts. If you're in the same situation, the easiest way to fix 
> it is to edit that conditional and comment out some of the lines, like 
> this:
>
> #if [ -d /usr/lib/systemd/system ]; then
> #   install -D -m644 etc/slurmctld.service 
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/systemd/system/slurmctld.service
> #   install -D -m644 etc/slurmd.service 
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/systemd/system/slurmd.service
> #   install -D -m644 etc/slurmdbd.service 
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/systemd/system/slurmdbd.service
> #   %if %{slurm_with cray}
> #      install -D -m644 contribs/cray/slurmsmwd/slurmsmwd.service 
> %{buildroot}/%{_unitdir}/slurmsmwd.service
> #   %endif
> #elif [ -d /etc/init.d ]; then
>    install -D -m755 etc/init.d.slurm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/init.d/slurm
>    install -D -m755 etc/init.d.slurmdbd 
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/init.d/slurmdbd
>    mkdir -p "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/sbin"
>    ln -s ../../etc/init.d/slurm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/sbin/rcslurm
>    ln -s ../../etc/init.d/slurmdbd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/sbin/rcslurmdbd
> #fi
>
> It would be great is schedmd could modify the legacy spec file to have 
> a --without-systemd option for this somewhat rare case, or check for 
> the existence of the systemd RPMs instead of just the existence of 
> systemd unit files for this conditional.
>
>
> On 2/11/19 11:34 AM, Michael Robbert wrote:
>> 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
>>>