[LON-CAPA-dev] Development cluster

[Stuart Raeburn]

Hi,

> Is there any reasonable way to do this? What files get mucked up in   
> the 32 to 64 bit transition?

The procedure adopted at MSU when using a 32-bit server as a clone of  
a 64-bit LON-CAPA production library server (e.g., for  
testing/troubleshooting) is to replace the standard rpm for gdbm  
installed for the Linux OS/arch with a custom gdbm created a few years  
ago (by Guy Albertelli).

Replacement of the gdbm rpm is on the 32-bit development server, and  
the custom rpm provides a gdbm on that server that can read .db files  
created on 64-bit arch.

Developers with access to CVS can find src rpms for the custom gdbm 1.8.0 in:
modules/msu/gdbm
I just added the src rpm I have used for CentOS 5 to that directory in CVS.

On CentOS 5, if you install rpm-build

yum install rpm-build

and copy the src rpm from modules/msu/gdbm in your local CVS checkout  
to: /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/

you can then do:

cd /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/
rpm -i gdbm-1.8.0-64bit.26.2.centos5.src.rpm
cd ../SPECS
rpmbuild -bb gdbm.spec
cd ../RPMS/i386

On CentOS 5 you will then want to replace the standard:  
gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.1.el5_6.1 rpm with the gdbm-1.8.0-64bit.26.2.centos5  
you just created.

rpm -Uvh gdbm-1.8.0-64bit.26.2.centos5

or you could use yum localinstall.


Let me know if you have any questions.


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium


Quoting "Lucas, Mark" <lucasm at ohio.edu>:

> Hi,
>
> A while back I tried to bring my development server back to life and  
>  clone chunks of
> oucapa2, our production library server. It was behaving strangely   
> and I never got
> back to it.
>
> I suddenly realized this morning that I was trying to clone a 64-bit  
>  machine to a 32-bit
> machine.
>
> Is there any reasonable way to do this? What files get mucked up in   
> the 32 to 64 bit
> transition? Is there a conversion that takes you backwards if I were  
>  to do a one-shot
> partial cloning then run a format adjusting script?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> --
> Mark Lucas  email: lucasm at ohiou.edu<mailto:lucasm at ohiou.edu>
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>