[Lustre-discuss] Help on installing Lustre 2.1.5 on stock CentOS 6.3

[Wojciech Turek]

and ignore mount -t proc proc /proc line, this is because I was building it
in a chroot'ed environment.

On 27 May 2013 17:16, Wojciech Turek <wjt27 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> These are my steps to build patchless client:
>
> # Lustre 2.1.5 #
> cd /root/lustre
> wget http://downloads.whamcloud.**com/public/lustre/latest-**
> maintenance-release/el6/**client/SRPMS/lustre-client-2.**
> 1.5-2.6.32_279.19.1.el6.x86_**64.src.rpm<http://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/latest-maintenance-release/el6/client/SRPMS/lustre-client-2.1.5-2.6.32_279.19.1.el6.x86_64.src.rpm>
> rpm -ivh /root/lustre/lustre-client-2.**1.5-2.6.32_279.19.1.el6.x86_**64.
> src.rpm
> cd /usr/src
> tar -zxvf /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/lustre-**2.1.5.tar.gz
> cd lustre-2.1.5
> ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/$**KVER/build --with
> -o2ib=/usr/src/ofa_**kernel
> mount -t proc proc /proc
> make rpms
>
>
>
>
> On 27 May 2013 17:03, Chan Ching Yu, Patrick <cychan at clustertech.com>wrote:
>
>>   Thanks for your quick reply.
>>
>> However, I’ve tried to add “—disable-server” in  SPECS/lustre.spec file
>> and build it
>>
>> # vi SPEC/lustre.spec
>> (....skipped....)
>> %define optflags -g -O2 -Werror
>> CONFIGURE_ARGS="%{?configure_args} --with-release=%release
>> --disable-server"
>> %if %{build_lustre_tests}
>> CONFIGURE_ARGS="$CONFIGURE_ARGS --enable-tests --enable-liblustre-tests"
>> %else
>> CONFIGURE_ARGS="$CONFIGURE_ARGS --disable-tests --disable-liblustre-tests"
>> %endif
>>
>> # rpmbuild –ba SPEC/lustre.spec
>>
>> # cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/
>> # rpm -ivh lustre-2.1.5-2.6.32_279.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
>> lustre-modules-2.1.5-2.6.32_279.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>         lustre-backend-fs is needed by
>> lustre-modules-2.1.5-2.6.32_279.el6.x86_64.x86_64
>>
>> That’s the same. Thx.
>>
>>
>>  *From:* Wojciech Turek <wjt27 at cam.ac.uk>
>> *Sent:* Monday, May 27, 2013 11:24 PM
>> *To:* Chan Ching Yu, Patrick <cychan at clustertech.com>
>> *Cc:* lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [Lustre-discuss] Help on installing Lustre 2.1.5 on stock
>> CentOS 6.3
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you building client then you need to add  --disable-server to your
>> ./configure line and that will disable lustre-backend-fs dependency.
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> Wojciech
>>
>> On 27 May 2013 16:14, Chan Ching Yu, Patrick <cychan at clustertech.com>wrote:
>>
>>>   Hi all,
>>>
>>> I tried to install Lustre 2.1.5 client RPM (patchless kernel) on a
>>> CentOS 6.3 machine.
>>>
>>> However, in Whamcloud download site (
>>> http://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/latest-maintenance-release/el6/client/RPMS/x86_64/)<http://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/latest-maintenance-release/el6/client/RPMS/x86_64/>,
>>>
>>> I can only find the binary RPMs for kernel 2.6.32-279.19.1, while kernel
>>> version on my stock CentOS6.3 is 2.6.32-279.
>>>
>>> As the kernel version does not match, I tried to build from source RPM,
>>> the rpmbuild is fine:
>>>
>>> # rpmbuild --rebuild
>>> lustre-client-2.1.5-2.6.32_279.19.1.el6.x86_64.src.rpm
>>> # cd rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/
>>>
>>> But dependencies error comes out when I install Lustre client RPMs:
>>>
>>> # rpm -ivh lustre-2.1.5-2.6.32_279.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
>>> lustre-modules-2.1.5-2.6.32_279.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
>>> lustre-tests-2.1.5-2.6.32_279.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
>>>
>>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>>         lustre-backend-fs is needed by
>>> lustre-modules-2.1.5-2.6.32_279.el6.x86_64.x86_64
>>>
>>> As I know, Lustre client does not need lustre-backend-fs. Why does this
>>> error occur? Thx.
>>>
>>> CY
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Wojciech Turek
>>
>> Senior System Architect
>>
>> High Performance Computing Service
>> University of Cambridge
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Wojciech Turek
>
> Senior System Architect
>
> High Performance Computing Service
>
>


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Wojciech Turek

Senior System Architect

High Performance Computing Service
University of Cambridge
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