glite-info-update-endpoints

This component is used with Top BDII and is intended to update LDAP endpoints for EGI. BDII documentation is available at gridinfo documentation site.

glite-info-update-endpoints is a cron job that runs every hour to download the list of site BDII URLs that are going to be used by the top level BDII to publish their resources.

The script uses the /etc/glite/glite-info-update-endpoints.conf file which by default is configured to use EGI's list of site BDIIs. The list of site BDIIs is taken from the EGI Configuration Database (GOCDB).

Installing from packages

On RHEL-based systems

On RHEL-based systems, it's possible to install packages from EGI UMD packages. The packages are build from this repository, and tested to work with other components part of the Unified Middleware Distribution.

Building packages

A Makefile allowing to build source tarball and packages is provided.

Building a RPM

The required build dependencies are:

• rpm-build
• make
• rsync
• python3
• python3-setuptools

# Checkout tag to be packaged
$ git clone https://github.com/EGI-Foundation/glite-info-update-endpoints.git
$ cd glite-info-update-endpoints
$ git checkout X.X.X
# Building in a container
$ docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/source -it quay.io/centos/centos:7
[root@8a9d60c61f42 /]# cd /source
[root@8a9d60c61f42 /]# yum install -y rpm-build yum-utils
[root@8a9d60c61f42 /]# yum-builddep -y glite-info-update-endpoints.spec
[root@8a9d60c61f42 /]# make rpm

The RPM will be available into the build/RPMS directory.

Installing from source

This procedure is not recommended for production deployment, please consider using packages.

Get the source by cloning this repository and do a make install.

Preparing a release

• Prepare a changelog from the last version, including contributors' names
• Prepare a PR with
  • Updating version and changelog in
    • CHANGELOG
    • glite-info-update-endpoints.spec
• Once the PR has been merged tag and release a new version in GitHub
  • Packages will be built using GitHub Actions and attached to the release page

History

This work started under the EGEE project, and was hosted and maintained for a long time by CERN. This is now hosted here on GitHub, maintained by the BDII community with support of members of the EGI Federation.