Slurm Package Builder

Build Slurm and Pyxis packages for Rocky Linux and Ubuntu with GPU plugin support (NVIDIA NVML and AMD ROCm SMI).

Both Ubuntu and Rocky builds are feature-identical (mysql, hwloc, numa, pmix, slurmrestd, lua, yaml, jwt, hdf5, freeipmi, rdkafka, rrdtool) to support mixed-OS clusters. amd64 builds include both NVML and ROCm SMI GPU plugins; arm64 builds include NVML only (ROCm is x86_64-only).

Docker builds (recommended)

Packages are output as tarballs to ./output/.

Slurm

make docker-build-ubuntu-amd64    # Ubuntu amd64 (NVML + ROCm SMI)
make docker-build-ubuntu-arm64    # Ubuntu arm64 (NVML only)
make docker-build-rocky-amd64     # Rocky amd64 (NVML + ROCm SMI)
make docker-build-rocky-arm64     # Rocky arm64 (NVML only)
make docker-build-all             # All Slurm targets

Pyxis

Pyxis builds require the corresponding Slurm build to have completed first.

make docker-build-pyxis-ubuntu-amd64
make docker-build-pyxis-ubuntu-arm64
make docker-build-pyxis-rocky-amd64
make docker-build-pyxis-rocky-arm64
make docker-build-pyxis-all

Configurable versions

Variable	Default	Description
SLURM_VERSION	25.11.4	Slurm source version
SLURM_MD5SUM	fc759abe...	Source tarball MD5 checksum
CUDA_VERSION	13-1	NVIDIA NVML dev headers version
ROCM_VERSION	6.4.2	AMD ROCm SMI version
PYXIS_VERSION	0.23.0	NVIDIA Pyxis SPANK plugin version
UBUNTU_VERSION	24.04	Ubuntu base image tag
ROCKY_VERSION	9.3	Rocky Linux base image tag
PKG_RELEASE	1	Package revision number (auto-incremented in CI)

make docker-build-ubuntu-amd64 SLURM_VERSION=25.11.4 SLURM_MD5SUM=fc759abe52f407520b348eac9b887c1c
make docker-build-ubuntu-amd64 CUDA_VERSION=13-1 ROCM_VERSION=6.4.2
make docker-build-pyxis-ubuntu-amd64 PYXIS_VERSION=0.23.0

Output naming

Tarballs include the Slurm version, distro, architecture, and GPU library versions:

slurm-25.11.4-ubuntu2404-amd64-cuda13-1-rocm6.4.2.tar.gz
slurm-25.11.4-ubuntu2404-arm64-cuda13-1.tar.gz
slurm-25.11.4-rocky93-amd64-cuda13-1-rocm6.4.2.tar.gz
pyxis-0.23.0-ubuntu2404-amd64-slurm25.11.4.tar.gz

Prerequisites

• Docker with buildx plugin
• For local arm64 builds: QEMU user-static (registered automatically via docker-setup)

Direct builds (inside a container or build host)

These targets run directly on the host and are used internally by the Docker builds.

make build-ubuntu   # Build .deb packages (requires Ubuntu/Debian)
make build-rocky    # Build .rpm packages (requires Rocky/RHEL 9)

GitHub Actions

The release.yml workflow is triggered manually via workflow_dispatch with all versions as inputs. Enter false for Ubuntu or Rocky version to skip those builds.

Build pipeline

1. matrix-setup — Calculates next package release number from existing releases, generates build matrices
2. build-slurm — Builds all Slurm targets in parallel (native arm64 runners for arm64 builds)
3. build-pyxis — Builds Pyxis against each Slurm target (depends on build-slurm)
4. release — Creates a draft GitHub release with all successful artifacts

Release versioning

Release tags follow semver: v25.11.4-1, v25.11.4-2, etc. The build number auto-increments and matches the package revision inside the .deb/.rpm files, so v25.11.4-2 produces packages versioned 25.11.4-2 (deb) and 25.11.4-2.el9 (rpm).