Installing CRAB at IIHE

On SANPC

Login as cmssoft:

su - cmssoft

Make sure you are in the correct dir:

cd /msa3/crab

Download the latest tarball from http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cms/ccs/wm/www/Crab/. Example:

wget http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cms/ccs/wm/www/Crab/CRAB_1_4_2.tgz

Untar it:

tar -zxvf CRAB_1_4_2.tgz

Rename the directory:

mv CRAB_1_4_2 CRAB_1_4_2_IIHE

Change directory and backup cms_cmssw.py

cd CRAB_1_4_2_IIHE/python
cp cms_cmssw.py cms_cmssw.py.orig

Apply the following patch (and adapt it if necessary):

patch -p0 <all_141.patch

Go back to the CRAB dir and run ./configure script:

cd ..
./configure

Change permissions:

chmod -R g+x CRAB_1_4_2_IIHE

Patch a new crab release

• add this line at the end of the crab.sh file

export PYTHONPATH=/opt/glite/lib/python/:$PYTHONPATH

and for the crab.csh file

setenv PYTHONPATH /opt/glite/lib/python/:$PYTHONPATH

• copy SOAPpy+fpconst to the BossPython repository

cp -rf /msa3/crab/CRAB_2_0_0/Boss/BOSS_4_3_8-ui3_1/BossPython/fpconst.py* /msa3/crab/CRAB_2_0_1/Boss/BOSS_4_3_8-ui3_1/BossPython/ 
cp -rf /msa3/crab/CRAB_2_0_0/Boss/BOSS_4_3_8-ui3_1/BossPython/SOAPpy/ /msa3/crab/CRAB_2_0_1/Boss/BOSS_4_3_8-ui3_1/BossPython/

• on the crab.py file comment out the line :

os.putenv("PATH", definePath("new") )

Create patches

version=1_5_3_pre3
cd /msa3/crab/CRAB_${version}_IIHE/python
for i in cms_cmssw.py SchedulerEdg.py EdgConfig.py
do 
  diff -u /msa3/crab/CRAB_$version/python/$i $i > patch-$version-$i 
done

Apply patches

version=1_5_3
previous=1_5_3_pre3
cd /msa3/crab/CRAB_${version}_IIHE/python
for i in cms_cmssw.py SchedulerEdg.py EdgConfig.py
do 
  cp $i ${i}-orig
  patch $i < /msa3/crab/CRAB_${previous}_IIHE/python/patch-$previous-$i
done

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