Hi Mohammed, On Jul 17, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Mohammed Gaafar wrote: > We have EasyBuild-1.2.0 installed on our system. I need to upgrade to v1.6.0. > Will the bootstrap installation upgrade the current version to the newer one > if I set the installation path (--prefix) to the current installation > location? or, I have to make a fresh installation and then point the > environment variables to the new installation?
here's an extract from our local install script, which can build the whole world from 0: (it is a double-bootstrap that ensures that potential troubles will be visible early on). # INSTRUCTIONS # # 1) ensure ~sw/.bashrc properly references the correct directory, eg. `export EASYBUILDPREFIX=/opt/apps/HPCBIOS.20130715` # 2) Follow the procedure for EB as described at: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/wiki/Bootstrapping-EasyBuild # prefer: /tmp # 3) copy Intel compilers and other sourcefiles or download as needed: mv /opt/apps/HPCBIOS.20130601/sources $EASYBUILDPREFIX # 4) Assuming you installed EB under /tmp: module load /tmp/modules/all/EasyBuild/1.6.0 # 5) eb --version # This is CRITICAL CHECK; it should report the expected version of EasyBuild without ANY problem # 6) unset EBROOTEASYBUILD # otherwise the double-bootstrap procedure seen below will fail; now try: # 7) time eb --try-software-name=EasyBuild --try-software-version=1.6.0 # 8) if all went fine, exit completely and log-in again and do the very final check, as in steps 4, 5: # 9) eb --version # This SHOULD match the step 5) and is a very strong check of reproducibility # 10) Fix ~/easyconfigs symlink as needed, so that it points to latest easyconfigs, for convenience! ie. steps (2) & (7) correspond to the equivalent stage2 & stage3 GCC bootstrap processes... cheers, Fotis -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # Yelling in a CERN forum
