Four Tiered D0RunII Download

As announced at the D0Race meeting two weeks ago (14 Mar 2002), and discussed before and since, we are switching to a 4 (from 3) tiered organzation of D0RunII for remote distribution. We are doing this because the new organization should be much more robust to network problems.

For details, see my D0Race talk from March 14th. This is in two versions: a quick summary and a more detailed explanation.

The 4 tiers are:

  D0RunII -q dist    skeleton of the release
  D0RunII-bin        binaries, specific to a particular OS and debug+maxopt
  packages           source code, use fetchpkgs.sh to download
  external products  should download one by one using D0-glpkgs-chk.sh to
                     tell you what you need. However, a new script,
                     fetchprod.sh is now provided to do it unconditionally.

The two fetch* scripts have been in the releases since t02.08.00 and p11.02.00 but you weren't required to use them.

----> As of t02.11.00 and p11.04.00 you will be required to use fetchpkgs.sh. This will also require a slightly different sequence of commands than you've used before. It isn't quite so simple but, we hope, it'll be more robust.

Alan

Alan Jonckheere

Last modified: Thu Apr 25 17:18:28 CDT 2002