Hi Fotis, that one looks a good solution.
one question.....why not adding p7zip as a build dependency? this way you could avoid extra workarounds like the start_dir = '..' isn't it? Pablo. 2015-04-14 10:35 GMT+02:00 Fotis Georgatos <[email protected]>: > > 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 > > > > > > > > -- Pablo Escobar López HPC systems engineer Biozentrum, University of Basel Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB Email: [email protected] Phone: +41 61 267 21 80 http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch
