Cheers Rob! You always have useful answers. I always assumed the git archive was for specific releases, but just managed to figure out the archive path for the specific branch, so running with that now. I will update when it finally runs. Cheers Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Darren J. White Applications Developer EPCC, University of Edinburgh Email: d.white@epcc.ed.ac.uk<mailto:d.white@epcc.ed.ac.uk> Telephone: +44 (0) 131 6513415 Room 2411, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 4 Sep 2017, at 16:11, Robert Currie <rcurrie@cern.ch<mailto:rcurrie@cern.ch>> wrote: Hi Darren, As far as I know there is no commitment from sites to make available additional packages not in a default sl6/cc7 install (other than packages needed for supporting large VOs such as cvmfs/xrootd/...) Would it possible to use the direct tarball download of the git repo to access the repo via standard http? e.g. for the develop branch on the ganga project `wget https://github.com/ganga-devs/ganga/archive/develop.zip` If not then it may be a good idea to package up the data and upload it ahead of the job as an LFN which can be brought to the WN ahead of the job running, Regards, Rob On 04/09/2017 03:54 PM, WHITE Darren wrote: Hi there, I'm working with LSST folks in Southampton who have code that is updated quite regularly. A while ago, I tested to see whether git could clone at time of execution (I cannot remember which site this was at), and it was a success. However, RAL does not have git installed, as similar code fails at that site. I've asked this before and didn't really get a full answer. Is there any way of knowing which sites have which software installed? It would save new users a lot of pain when trying to get up and running, or even just testing. Cheers Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Darren J. White Applications Developer EPCC, University of Edinburgh Email: d.white@epcc.ed.ac.uk<mailto:d.white@epcc.ed.ac.uk> Telephone: +44 (0) 131 6513415 Room 2411, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.