Good morning Pablo, I’ve also been there; a “less pure” way to do this is to rely on p7zip, such as: https://github.com/fgeorgatos/easybuild.experimental/blob/master/users/fgeorgatos/my_easyblocks/easybuild/easyblocks/MATLAB-2013a.eb
The reason this is not “pure" is that we don’t yet have anything near “extractdeps”; ie. deps only become visible at build time rather than extract time. The workaround is to consider p7zip as yet another source. To be precice, I am far more emphatic for removing the human hand from the build processes rather than looking for perfect purity, so for me the above has always been the one and only way to deliver anything that requires .iso extraction (as opposed to manually creating a tarball). hope this helps in some way, F. On Apr 14, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Pablo Escobar Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to install Mathematica 10.0.2 which is not supported in easybuild so I > will try to update the available easyblock and I have a doubt. > > I have a Mathematica iso which contains the installer. As far as I know > Easybuild doesn't support reading .iso files and I am not sure which is the > recommended approach to deal with .iso files. > > which is the "easybuild way" to do this? should I create a .tar.gz "manually" > with all the content of the .iso and comment in the easyconfig how the source > file has been created? Or is there any other recommended approach? I am > asking before starting tweaking the current easyblock to be sure I do it "the > easybuild way" so it can be merged upstream in the future......if I manage to > get it working :) > 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
