[slurm-users] RHEL8 support

[Benjamin Redling]

On 28/10/2019 08.26, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote:
> Taras Shapovalov <taras.shapovalov at brightcomputing.com> writes:
> 
>> Do I understand correctly that Slurm19 is not compatible with rhel8? It is
>> not in the list https://slurm.schedmd.com/platforms.html
> 
> It says
> 
> "RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL7), CentOS 7, Scientific Linux 7 (and newer)"
> 
> Perhaps that includes RHEL8, and CentOS 8, not only Scientific Linux 8?

AFAIK there won't be a Scientific Linux 8 (by Fermilab):
https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ANNOUNCE;11d6001.1904

So it seems if there aren't any other maintainers taking care of a
potential SL8 and "and newer" was written intentionally it has to be
RHEL or CentOS 8.

Regards,
Benjamin
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