It works, and i think Joachims setup is fairly similar to ours. If you (Joachim) want to look at it i can give you the relevant parts, or apply for an account here and take a look yourself :-)
On 04/12/2017 04:25 PM, Alan O'Cais wrote: > There's a good discussion of how to do this > in https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/2162 > > I think @akesandgren <https://github.com/akesandgren> probably has the > best tips since he is using the relevant "subdir-user-modules" option in > the wild. > > Alan > > On 12 April 2017 at 16:13, Joachim Hein <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > Sorry, if that is a silly question, but I couldn’t see this documented. > I have a user who likes to use the system EasyBuild to build > packages in their private space using the modules we provided. If > in user mode, I load the EB module and initiate an install using the > system eb config and adding --installpath=$HOME/eb_test to the build > statement. The build will not use the toolchains (e.g. foss/2016b) > already systemwide installed, but will rebuild it in $HOME/eb_test. > > Obviously if I don’t add an installpath, it will fail since I don’t > allow users to write the centrailised location. > > Is using the systemwide module and extending this privately > supported in EB? > > Best wishes > Joachim > > > > > -- > Dr. Alan O'Cais > E-CAM Software Manager > Juelich Supercomputing Centre > Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH > 52425 Juelich, Germany > > Phone: +49 2461 61 5213 > Fax: +49 2461 61 6656 > E-mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > WWW: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- Ake Sandgren, HPC2N, Umea University, S-90187 Umea, Sweden Internet: [email protected] Phone: +46 90 7866134 Fax: +46 90-580 14 Mobile: +46 70 7716134 WWW: http://www.hpc2n.umu.se
