Hi André, On Mar 11, 2016, at 5:01 PM, André Gemünd <[email protected]> wrote: > Great. And what do people do when Intel releases Update 3 shortly after? As I > said, its probably more a question of best-practice. Do you skip these > versions? Or just update them without using EasyBuild? And if there is an > EasyConfig using an older release, do you stay with the one thats referenced > in the file for better reproducability (or some other reason), or simply > modify it?
The approach which I follow is to rely on buildsets (say, /opt/apps/HPCBIOS.20160312) and simply invent a new buildsets when sufficient planets align (new configs, new version of EB etc). More broadly, easyconfigs normally trickle up in the food chain like: user’s->group’s->system's I think you question is more about how do you manage the system’s area, right? Fotis p.s. @ Kenneth: I can see a more generic need here to swap our notes about what works, what doesn’t and how in managing easyconfigs, so how about feeding this topic in one of our next 30min hangouts? -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # signal detected in a CERN forum
