Thanks Ward and Kenneth, enough options to use Niek
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Niek, > > > On 11/06/15 10:31, Niek de Klein wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to write an .eb file for Anacona, which has a binary file >> installer. During installation you have to send to the command line: >> <Enter>, yes<Enter>, path/to/install/<Enter>. I use easyblock = 'Binary'. >> The first two steps (pressing enter and saying yes) I can do by using >> >> install_cmd = 'sh %(name)s-%(version)s.sh | yes' >> >> However, I don't know how to send the install path to the command line >> after pressing yes. Is there already support in EasyBuild for sending text >> to the command line during installation? >> > > You have a couple of options here (in order of my preference) > > i) You can enhance the BInary generic easyblock so you can specify a > string to be passed to stdin of the install command; you can do this via > the 'inp' named argument in the run_cmd function used by the Binary > easyblock > > ii) You can write an easyblock that derives from Binary, and uses the > 'inp' argument in run_cmd to pass 'yes' and the install dir. > > iii) You can write an easyblock that uses run_cmd_qa, to interact with the > interactive installer (see > https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=run_cmd_qa > ). > > > regards, > > Kenneth >
