On 27/06/17 15:42, Alan O'Cais wrote:
That is a neat trick with the sourcepaths that I will try out today.
I have to credit boegel, he told me about it, I had simply assumed that would not work :)
I think there is a bit more to a user install space than what's been mentioned when you have a HMNS, see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/2143
ah... because there are then two roots to the hierarchy, the global one and the local one?
Miguel
On 27 June 2017 at 03:09, Fotis Georgatos <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:Hi Miguel, Yeap! i’d also fully applause this approach, it is very similar to what we’ve been doing since 2012! - $MODULEPATH can include both global and local builds, you just need to decide their exact order * fyi. recent versions of Lmod have in ./contrib a pair of use.own.eb modulefiles, implementing the above - the global install, is nothing more than by yet another user, which just happens to be steered by admin - i also encourage people to add a versionsuffix with their initials and maybe a date, to keep things apart The trick with EASYBUILD_SOURCEPATH is quite nice, it could also be used within use.own.eb/* modulefiles, assuming that it is always *prepend*, as you described. F. On Jun 27, 2017, at 1:57 AM, Miguel Costa <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hello Davide, > > I also had doubts initially because of what you mention and also using global source paths, but this works for us: > > - create and manage a cluster-wide software stack with an easybuild user, using EASYBUILD_PREFIX=$EB_GLOBAL_PREFIX > > - for normal users > > - set EASYBUILD_PREFIX=$HOME/.local/easybuild but add $EB_GLOBAL_PREFIX/modules/all to the $MODULEPATH (so that it finds the already globally installed software) > > - set EASYBUILD_SOURCEPATH=$HOME/.local/easybuild/sources:$EB_GLOBAL_PREFIX/sources, in this order (so that it downloads to local but looks in global). This was recently clarified in the documentation, last line in https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Configuration.html?highlight=sourcepath#sourcepath <https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Configuration.html?highlight=sourcepath#sourcepath> > > I think this is enough. > > Miguel > > P.S. I encourage users to always add a versionsuffix in case they are rebuilding a package that already exists globally, otherwise which one gets picked depends on the order of the folders in $MODULEPATH -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # signal detected in a CERN forum -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
