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TBA
Description
The bi-weekly meeting of the LHC librarians and LCG/AA projects
Attendees: Andreas Pfeiffer, Bertrand Bellenot, Stefan Roiser, Hubert Degaudenzi,
News
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- LCG 56f - a new release has been built over the weekend, it contains the following changes
- full release of Mac 10.6
- inconistency of expat version 1 and 2 fixed
- full release of python module groups
- In the view of moving to Mac 10.6 we were forced to upgrade several external packages. The question would be whether the following packages can be upgraded generically for all supported platforms -> action all
- Xerces 2.8.0 -> 3.1.0
- Python 2.5.4 -> 2.6.2(or 2.6.5)
- Qt 4.4.2 -> 4.6.0
- We received the information from IT that there is the last chance to move from HN to Sharepoint as they are upgrading to the latest Sharepoint installation now and after this upgrade the move will not be possible anymore
Action items
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- Test the latest CMT version v1r21 -> action Stefan
- Fix the LFC plugin library of CORAL -> action Andrea -> done
- Grid setup within LCGCMT -> action Hubert, Andrea, Stefan
- Rebuild of gcc 4.3.2 to cope with locale in afs -> action Hubert -> done -> we will move to this version in AA
- Request for new python modules storm and jason -> action Stefan -> done
- test of fastjet 2.4.2p1 on windows -> action Hubert -> done
- Fixing the slc5 runtime environment on the Grid -> action Stefan, Hubert -> done
- Splitting of LCG_Settings -> action Hubert
- Upgrade of mysql client to 5.1.45 -> action Stefan
Round Table
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ROOT/SPI
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- The currently supported version of scons (0.91) can not be built anymore with VC9. As there is no interest in this package anymore the occasion will be taken to remove it from the AA software stack
- ROOT 5.22.00j has been built for all platforms including Mac 10.6
LHCb
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- Hubert has developed a new version of platform.py which he will make available, a copy is retrievable from the LHCb svn repository
CMS
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- Work ongoing on chaining CMS and AA nightly builds. This needs a bit more fine tuning. On the compilation side there are currently some problems with compiling dictionaires
Aob
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- A new effort has been started to test the output of the AA nightlies on the Grid. This should give us a better picture about compatibility of the AA software stack with non supported OSes (e.g. Suse, Ubuntu, etc.)
- Stefan reported that he started playing with the gcc 4.5 plugin mechanism to use it with gccxml backend. Work ongoing.
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