Speaker
Description
The installation and maintenance of scientific software for research in
experimental, phenomenological, and theoretical High Energy Physics (HEP)
requires a considerable amount of time and expertise. While many tools are
available to make the task of installation and maintenance much easier,
many of these tools require maintenance on their own, have little
documentation and very few are used outside of HEP community.
For the installation and maintenance of the software, we rely on the well
tested, extensively documented, and reliable stack of software management
tools with the RPM Package Manager (RPM) at its core. The precompiled
HEP software packages can be deployed easily and without detailed Linux
system knowledge and are kept up-to-date through the regular system
update process. The precompiled packages were tested on multiple
installations of openSUSE, RHEL clones, and Fedora. As the RPM
infrastructure is adopted by many Linux distributions, the approach can
be used on more systems.
In this contribution, we discuss our approach to software deployment in
detail, present the software repositories for multiple RPM-based Linux
distributions to a wider public and call for a collaboration for all the
interested parties.
References
The material was previously presented on the internal meetings of MPP so there are no public links available. However, recently the main repository of the project was made public and is available together with some documentation at
https://github.com/andriish/HEPrpms/
Significance
This presentation will cover novel results/approaches.
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