[HTCondor-users] HTCondor on Ubuntu 12.04

[Tim Theisen <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It appears that there is demand for running HTCondor on Ubuntu 12.04 
(Precise Pangolin). Previously, users have been using the Debian package 
on Ubuntu without difficultly. However, since the advent of python 
bindings, the HTCondor .deb will not install cleanly on Ubuntu 12.04 
because of the different versions of python installed between Ubuntu and 
Debian.

We plan to support Ubuntu 12.04 in the very near future. As an interim 
measure, I have put .deb files and tarballs for Ubuntu 12.04 on our 
download site for HTCondor versions 8.0.2 and 8.1.1. These builds are 
made for our internal build system. So, they are exercised quite a bit. 
They do not have all features of HTCondor enabled. These builds do not 
support the 'standard universe' which provides transparent checkpoint 
and migration. However, the packages will install cleanly on Ubuntu 12.04.

Consider these files to be a preview into Ubuntu 12.04 support.

Any comments and feedback are welcome.

...Tim

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Tim Theisen
Release Manager
HTCondor & Open Science Grid
Center for High Throughput Computing
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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