Hi Andreas, afaik Update 6 is still under development though (notice the Factory folder), so packages could still change or have issues.
Best Greetings Andre ----- Am 26. Sep 2018 um 15:32 schrieb Andreas Hilboll [email protected]: > We just yesterday installed 7.8.1 from > http://build.openhpc.community/OpenHPC:/1.3:/Update6:/Factory/CentOS_7/x86_64/lmod-ohpc-7.8.1-5.1.ohpc.1.3.6.x86_64.rpm, > and everything's working smoothly. > > Cheers, > Andreas > > > André Gemünd <[email protected]> writes: > >> 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
