[Labs-l] [Labs-announce] [breaking change] [tool labs] jsub default changed to --release=trusty

Wed Oct 26 18:27:20 UTC 2016

Dear Bryan,

Thank you very much for your answers. They've been quite clear and helpful.

I supose that on some time in the future not adding "-l release=trusty"
won't throw more error messages on stderr, right?

Regards, M.

2016-10-26 19:57 GMT+02:00 Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org>:

> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:33 AM, MarcoAurelio <strigiwm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Bryan and fellow Tool Labs users,
> >
> > Thanks for this. Sorry if the question sounds obvious for most of you,
> but
> > as beginner in this, I sometimes have doubts.
>
> No worries. These are actually good questions!
>
> > I run a bot cronned on Tool Labs and I'm using a syntax like "jsub -N
> > jobname -l release=trusty (...)". Should I continue to add that "-l
> > release=trusty" on the cron and the jobs I submit to the grid?
>
> Yes, we recommend keeping the "-l release=trusty" in the command. The
> jsub process will currently give a warning on stderr if no "-l
> release=..." argument is present. Setting "-l release=trusty" is the
> same as the default today, but it will keep you from seeing that nag
> message.
>
> > You also mention jsub. I wonder that jobs with jstart are also affected
> and
> > thus the same -l release=trusty ain't needed anymore?
>
> The jsub, jstart, and qcronsub commands are all actually the same
> program, so the "-l release=trusty" advice applies to any of them that
> you may be using. The only difference between these three names is
> default arguments:
>
> * jstart ... == jsub -continuous -once ...
> * qcronsub ... == jsub -once ...
>
>
> Bryan
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