some time ago I did some testing to see how easybuild could be bootstrapped using conda. This should work in any machine even if you don't have a supported python version or a modules tool available
$> curl -o /tmp/Miniconda2-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda2-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh $> bash /tmp/Miniconda2-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -b -f $> export PATH=~/miniconda2/bin:$PATH $> conda install -c pescobar lmod=6.5.12 -y $> pip install easybuild $> source ~/miniconda2/lmod/lmod/init/bash $> eb --modules-tool=Lmod foss-2016a.eb -r --dry-run Pablo. 2017-04-05 19:20 GMT+02:00 Alvarez, Damian <[email protected]>: > Alternatively, for people that regularly contribute back, you could clone > the repo[s] somewhere in your home, write a module for it, and use it to > install your system wide EB. We use that every time we deploy a new stack. > It is close to trivial. This is the TCL module we have for it (and yes, it > has tabs, I think it is the only module we wrote that has them): > > #%Module > proc ModulesHelp { } { > puts stderr { EasyBuild is a software build and installation framework > written in Python that allows you to install software in a structured, > repeatable and robust way. - Homepage: http://hpcugent.github.com/ > easybuild/ > } > } > > module-whatis {Description: EasyBuild is a software build and installation > framework > written in Python that allows you to install software in a structured, > repeatable and robust way. - Homepage: http://hpcugent.github.com/ > easybuild/} > > set root /path/to/easybuild-framework > > conflict EasyBuild > > prepend-path PATH $root > setenv EBROOTEASYBUILD "$root" > setenv EBVERSIONEASYBUILD "dev" > > prepend-path PYTHONPATH $root > prepend-path PYTHONPATH $root/../easybuild-easyblocks > prepend-path PYTHONPATH $root/../easybuild-easyconfigs > prepend-path PYTHONPATH $root/../vsc-base/lib > > Damian > > On 05/04/17 19:07, "[email protected] on behalf of Kenneth > Hoste" <[email protected] on behalf of > [email protected]> wrote: > > On 05/04/2017 07:59, Åke Sandgren wrote: > > Install the bootstrap in a temp dir, mod load it, install the version > > you want in the proper place, drop the temp. > > This is indeed the only way for now, the bootstrap script doesn't > support specifying a particular version to install. > > If there's enough demand for it, we could, but since you can just > temporarily use the latest EasyBuild version to install an older > version > as Åke suggested, I don't see much value in it to be honest... > > Without the bootstrap script, you could also just use 'easy_install' or > 'pip install', both of which support specifying specific versions, but > you wouldn't get an EasyBuild module to load then of course. > > > regards, > > Kenneth > > > > On 04/05/2017 12:47 AM, Pieter Neerincx wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm familiar with the bootstrap script for EasyBuild and it does a > very nice job when I want to get the latest and greatest EasyBuild deployed > on a bare / plain vanilla server, but I cannot find an option to tell the > bootstrap script to install a specific version... and sometimes this comes > in handy when you want to reproduce an environment with the risk of running > into new bugs or backwards incompatible features ;). > >> > >> When deploying a tool with EasyBuild itself it's easy to request a > specific version, but how do I do that for EasyBuild (when there is not > already another EasyBuild on the system)? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Pieter > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------- > >> phone: +31 6 143 66 783 > >> e-mail: [email protected] > >> skype: pieter.online > >> ------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------ > Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH > 52425 Juelich > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich > Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher > Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), > Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, > Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------ > > -- Pablo Escobar López HPC systems engineer sciCORE, University of Basel SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics http://scicore.unibas.ch
