Testing an Globus Free OSG-Software (From EPEL(-testing))

As you may or may not know, there is a massive globus update pending in EPEL that will update globus to the version the OSG distributes.  What this means is much less work for the osg-software team since we will not have to build and support our own builds of globus.

Testing the globus from EPEL while installing some packages from osg repos is not a trivial matter.

1. Disable the priority of the OSG repo
2. Exclude globus and related packages that are already in EPEL from the osg repo.

Below is my final file /etc/yum.repos.d/osg.repo

	[osg]
	name=OSG Software for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch
	#baseurl=http://repo.grid.iu.edu/osg-release/$basearch
	mirrorlist=http://repo.grid.iu.edu/mirror/osg-release/$basearch
	failovermethod=priority
	#priority=98
	enabled=1
	gpgcheck=1
	gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-OSG
	consider_as_osg=yes
	exclude=globus*,gsi*,gridsite*,uberftp*,myproxy*,edg-gridftp*,dcap*,CGSI*

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Notice the many excludes in the file, the list may not be complete.

Installation is just:

yum install osg-client-condor --enablerepo=epel-testing

UPDATE!!!!
Testing Results
very good!

I ran 3 tests, all completely successful.
1. globus-job-run against a rpm CE.

$ globus-job-run pf-grid.unl.edu/jobmanager-fork /bin/sh -c "id"
uid=1761(hcc) gid=4001(grid) groups=4001(grid)

2. Condor-G submission
Condor-G Submission worked without problems.  The submission file is below:

	universe = grid
	output = out
	error = err
	executable = /bin/sleep
	arguments = 10
	log = logfile
	grid_resource = gt5 pf-grid.unl.edu/jobmanager-condor
	x509userproxy = /tmp/x509up_u44843
	queue 1

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3. And globus-url-copy worked:

$ globus-url-copy gsiftp://pf-grid.unl.edu/etc/hosts ./hosts