Dear Ole, maybe the OpenHPC for CentOS 7 package can be useful for that? It provides 7.7.14 currently:
http://build.openhpc.community/OpenHPC:/1.3:/Update5/CentOS_7/src/lmod-ohpc-7.7.14-3.1.src.rpm Greetings André ----- Am 26. Sep 2018 um 13:25 schrieb Ole Holm Nielsen [email protected]: > Dear Kenneth, > > Thanks a lot for the answer. Since CentOS 7 is a very popular HPC > cluster OS, it would be great to obtain an authoritative RPM package for > Lmod as required by EasyBuild. It's very unfortunate that EPEL hasn't > updated the Lmod RPM in 2 years. Your .spec file for Lmod 6.6 seems to > me not to be very much plug-and-play :-( > > If no-one can provide an Lmod 6.6.3 RPM for CentOS 7, then it would save > us a lot of trouble if EB could still use Lmod 6.5.1 until a newer RPM > becomes available. > > Thanks a lot, > Ole > > > On 26-09-2018 11:38, Kenneth Hoste wrote: >> Dear Ole, >> >> We build our own Lmod RPMs so we can stay on top of recent developments. >> >> You can find our .spec file in https://github.com/hpcugent/Lmod-UGent. >> >> If you go back in history a bit, you should be able to find a .spec file >> for Lmod 6.x. >> >> Of course, you'll need to customize this w.r.t. Lmod configuration & such. >> >> I should also mention that the Lmod 6.6.3 requirement may be a bit more >> than is strictly required... >> In theory a slightly older Lmod 6.x should be fine too, but I kept >> running into problems left & right when testing on top of older Lmod 6.x >> versions, so I figured going with the latest 6.x was a reasonable >> compromise (I didn't want to force people to switch to Lmod 7). >> >> If that's a big problem, I can try and reconsider that version >> requirement to loosen it up a bit (as long as all the tests pass, that >> it), and issue a quick EasyBuild 3.7.1. >> >> On the other hand, this is good motivation to update your Lmod >> installation, there have been *a lot* of improvements to Lmod since >> version 6.5.1 (which was released Aug 2016...). >> >> >> regards, >> >> Kenneth >> >> On 26/09/2018 11:25, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: >>> Regarding upgrading to EB 3.7.0: >>> >>> On 25-09-2018 15:09, Kenneth Hoste wrote: >>>> Note that the minimal version requirement for Lmod has been bumped to >>>> 6.6.3. >>> >>> We use CentOS 7 and the 2 years old Lmod RPM package provided by the >>> EPEL repository: Lmod-6.5.1-2.el7.x86_64.rpm >>> >>> Can anyone suggest the best way to get or build an RPM package of a >>> recent version of Lmod [1] that works well on CentOS 7? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ole >>> > >> [1] https://github.com/TACC/Lmod -- André Gemünd Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing [email protected] Tel: +49 2241 14-2193 /C=DE/O=Fraunhofer/OU=SCAI/OU=People/CN=Andre Gemuend
