Thanks guys, You guided me in the right direction.
Cheers, On 21 July 2015 at 03:28, Robert Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > I think what Martin suggests is closest to the "EasyBuild way" > > The problem is that one of the desirable features of EB is reproducible > builds and secondarily, installing offline. > > In order to do what you want to do you could override the fetch_step in a > custom easyblock to go off and grab the source that way. > > Ideally you'd tarball that result and stash it in the sources tree so > subsequent installs wouldn't need to go and do that (but you'd need to do a > file check to skip that part of your custom method. > > I have a general idea how to do this, but not enough time to get a working > version up as a demo. > > Sorry I missed you on IRC. I'm online now (and generally during eastern > timezone times) if you want to chat > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 7:37 AM Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have this: >> >> https://gist.github.com/serverhorror/694ee48785f04c9fcc9b >> >> Basically just a manual download of whatever is there. I was too lazy to >> actually put together all the deps and create proper separated builds. >> >> I think it's too bad that EB doesn't accept git/svn/hg for source URIs -- >> or I may have not looked hard enough how easy it is to hook into the >> download part of EB to make that possible. :) >> >> /Martin >> >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:53 PM Jordi Blasco <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Good morning, >>> >>> I’m trying to install vcflib (https://github.com/ekg/vcflib) which >>> contains multiple git submodules. >>> >>> In order to download the complete repo I do need to add the --recursive >>> option : >>> >>> git clone --recursive https://github.com/ekg/vcflib.git >>> >>> I have tried to execute "git submodule update --init --recursive" as a >>> prebuildopts, but it didn't work. >>> >>> Do you know any workaround for this? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Jordi >>> >> -- >> -- >> http://www.xing.com/profile/Martin_Marcher >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinmarcher >> Mobil: +43 / 660 / 62 45 103 >> UID: ATU68801424 >> >
