The CERN automatic installation system

A system has been developed at CERN for the automatic installation of CERNLIB sofware. This system currently runs on Unix systems only. It consists of the following components.

libserv

Script that permits a developer or installer to request the installation of a new source file, the compilation of a program or both. For example libserv put fatmen.car will install the file fatmen.car in the NEW area on asis and on the NEWPAMS disk on CERNVM (a copy is also made in CMZ format).

nfscp

This script is invoked when a client issues a libserv put command and copies the requested file to the target directories.

nfsmake

This script is invoked when a client requests that a program is compiled, e.g. by libserv compile kernlib.

asisserv

This is a slave script to nfsmake that is invoked on the target machines.

• nfsmake