Why not keep /etc/easybuild.d/ in sync on all systems?

On 09/12/2016 06:19 PM, Joachim Hein wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The EasyBuild configuration file lives on a local disc of our
> frontend /etc/easybuild.d/config.cfg hence EB is broken on any other
> part of the cluster (e.g. building on a compute node).  I am aware
> of 
> http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Configuration.html#configuration-file-s
>  and
> currently $EASYBUILD_CONFIGFILES seems the way forward.  However setting
> that as a system default in every account seems polluting to me.   A
> natural place seems the EasyBuild module and I could hack it into there.
>  However with the frequent upgrades to EB, I would need to remember to
> hack the newly builded module each time.
> 
> Since many here are operating multimode clusters, this must be a
> frequent issue.  How are others handling this?
> 
> Thanks and best wishes
>   Joachim
> 

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