I thought the full "official release" had to be obtained from the Platform
Developer (PD) in order to reduce the distribution workload on Argonne -- only the
PDs and Beta testers should need APS access.
The official release should be distributed as just source code to the PDs, who
then build it and construct a .tar file containing the host binaries as well
(using gnumake built_release) which is then distributed to users. For those sites
running multiple architectures, the PDs would have to provide a patch file
containing any changes necesary for the particular architecture.
At the moment I am the PD for Solaris, which is fine in itself except that I can't
even get the distribution over the network from APS -- the trans-atlantic link is
usually just too busy. If someone from the US then asks me for a release we get
the same problem again in reverse, and IMHO we would be wasting a valuable
resource crossing the pond with the full release twice. For that reason I suspect
I'm not the best person to act as PD for Solaris, although I'm happy to act as a
European distribution point for the source and Solaris host.
- Andrew
O o ._ Andrew Johnson, Royal Greenwich Observatory
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