Hi Malcolm, Yes, your approach w/c/should work!
I am unsure if including the proposed workaround hardwired in mainstream easybuild would be the long-term optimal approach (think who could complain) but there is a way around that too: - What if the headers-customisation are living in a file external to easybuild and fed as an extension? I think that kind of approach is more passable and it is up to users to swap headers-customisation files (ie. implying consent to what the headers mean or/and take compliance on their own hands) Fotis On Mar 16, 2015, at 4:36 AM, Malcolm Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > eb Java-1.8.0_31.eb > > Fails > > Reading the easyconfig source code, I see it advises > > “# download the tar.gz directly from > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html“ > > So I download it (following > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10268583/how-to-automate-download-and-installation-of-java-jdk-on-linux) > as: > > wget -P ${PREFIX}/source/j/Java/ --no-check-certificate --no-cookies > --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" > http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u31-b13/jdk-8u31-linux-x64.tar.gz > and the eb now succeeds. Yay. > > But, surely this should not persist. Something must be done! Perhaps by me!?! > > Presumably the challenge is the check box which is opaque to the easybuild > framework, and what is needed is to get such a header declared in the > Java*.eb and contrive for it to be passed down. > > Something like: > > • change filetools.py download_file(*) to > • accept a new parameter, namely, headers={} > • change the call to urlopen as: > url_fd = urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request(url, headers=headers), > timeout=timeout) > > • give EasyBlock a new instance variable, say, source_url_headers > • modify the Java*.eb to include: > source_url_headers=[{"Cookie: oraclelicense" : > "accept-securebackup-cookie"}] > > I think this should work and am willing to “cut my teeth” on this project > with this small set of changes if y’all agree it is a good approach to this > problem. > > Do you? > > Thanks > > ~ Malcolm Cook > cheers, Fotis -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # signal detected in a CERN forum
