[Rivet] Agile Genser - broken links

[Andy Buckley]

On 01/05/16 23:07, David Santiago Quevedo Vega wrote:
> Hi, hope you are well.
>
> I'm trying to install the generators for Agile in a system with no CERN
> LCG AFS area mounted. For this purpose I went to the Genser Mirror wiki
> at hepforge.org and I tried to consult the links:
> /http://ep-dep-sft.web.cern.ch/generators/instructions/ and
> /http://ep-dep-sft.web.cern.ch/generators///instructions#lbootstrap,
> /and to download the Agile genser bootstrap script from
> /https://www.phenogrid.dur.ac.uk/agile/genser/agile-genser-bootstrap.
> /The issue is that all these links seem to be broken. Are they really
> broken? Or maybe I need some special proxy or ssh connection with an
> account to have access to CERN's generators?
>
> I'd really appreciate your help.

Hi Santiago,

I think those LCG bootstrapping instructions are all outdated now. We do 
keep a copy of the old bootstrap script at 
https://rivet.hepforge.org/hg/contrib/file/tip but it will require 
modification to run since the LCG package management system changed and 
all the paths are now different.

May I ask where you found this "Genser Mirror wiki at hepforge.org"? We 
have tried to remove any links to AGILe and Genser mirroring from the 
Rivet wiki, for example.

I recently updated AGILe to be able to use the CVMFS distribution of LCG 
libraries. This is used by Grid jobs and may be an easier thing for you 
than the AFS area. And you can always compile your Fortran generators by 
hand and install them into that structure: chances are that you only 
need one or two. AGILe is anyway no help for the more modern generator 
codes, which come with their own convenient steering interfaces.

Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow