apx-rpms.rst

Available Packages

The CernVM-FS software is available in form of several packages:

cvmfs-release

Adds the CernVM-FS yum/apt repository.

cvmfs-config-default

Contains a configuration and public keys suitable for nodes in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid. Provides access to repositories in the cern.ch, egi.eu, and opensciencegrid.org domains.

cvmfs-config-none

Empty package to satisfy the cvmfs-config requirement of the cvmfs package without actually installing any configuration.

cvmfs

Contains the Fuse module and additional client tools. It has dependencies to at least one of the cvmfs-config-... packages.

cvmfs-fuse3

Contains the additional client libraries necessary to mount with the libfuse3 system libraries.

cvmfs-devel

Contains the libcvmfs.a static library and the libcvmfs.h header file for use of CernVM-FS with Parrot [Thain05]_ as well as the libcvmfs_cache.a static library and libcvmfs_cache.h header in order to develop cache plugins.

cvmfs-auto-setup

Only available through yum. This is a wrapper for cvmfs_config setup. This is supposed to provide automatic configuration for the ATLAS Tier3s. Depends on cvmfs.

cvmfs-server

Contains the CernVM-FS server tool kit for maintaining publishers and Stratum 1 servers.

cvmfs-gateway

The publishing gateway services are installed on a node with access to the authoritative storage.

cvmfs-ducc

Daemon that unpacks container images into a repository. Supposed to run on a publisher node.

cvmfs-notify

WebSockets frontend for used for repository update notifications. Supposed to be co-located with a RabbitMQ service.

kernel-...-.aufs21

Scientific Linux 6 kernel with aufs. Required for SL6 based Stratum 0 servers. (Note: no active support for aufs anymore)

cvmfs-shrinkwrap

Stand-alone utility to export file system trees into containers for HPC use cases.

cvmfs-unittests

Contains the cvmfs_unittests binary. Only required for testing.