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.