[slurm-users] Upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04

[Stefan Staeglich]

Hi Will,

in this case it should no problem to upgrade directly to Ubuntu 20.04? It 
ships 19.05, there is no 19.11.

Best,
Stefan

Am Montag, 16. März 2020, 15:41:56 CET schrieb Will Dennis:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> I have not been able to find any 18.08.x PPAs; I myself have backported the
> latest Debian HPC Team release of 19.05.5 into my PPA -
> https://launchpad.net/~wdennis/+archive/ubuntu/dhpc-backports
> 
> I have also created local packages of 18.08.6.2, but only for Ubuntu 16.04,
> for my own use...
> 
> Could you not use my 19.05 PPA to upgrade your 17.11? I think that meets the
> "no more than 2 releases" rule (17.11 -> 18.08 -> 19.05)
> 
> Best,
> Will
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slurm-users <slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com> On Behalf Of
> "Stefan Stäglich" Sent: Monday, March 16, 2020 8:39 AM
> To: slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com
> Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04
> 
> Hello,
> 
> seems that the is a single package only in the PPA and the SystemD units are
> missing.
> 
> Is there a PPA that provides Slurm 18.08.x spitted in different packages
> like Ubuntu does?
> 
> Best,
> Stefan
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > we are running our cluster with Ubuntu 18.04. I thinking already about
> > the upgrade to the coming release of Ubuntu 20.04.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I would like to do a in-place upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 if possible.
> > Ubuntu ships 17.11.x per default and Ubuntu 20.04 will ship 19.11.x.
> > So it won't be possible to update to Ubuntu 20.04 directly. But the
> > PPA ppa:slurm-mainline/ppa ships 18.08.x.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > So it should be possible to
> > 
> > *	Upgrade to Slum 18.08.x first via PPA
> > *	Upgrade to Slurm 19.11.x and Ubuntu 20.04 after
> > *	Always the database will be updated first, then the scheduler and
> > then the submit hosts/nodes
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Has someone experiences with this PPA or any other comments/suggestions?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > Stefan Stäglich


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