Hi,
> https://github.com/Bright-Computing/bic ## .spec file and much paraphernalia
> included, ignore the filenames
> If you are running a cluster by Bright Computing with Lmod, I bet you're
> probably using a fork of that work, already.
Also, some more ideas that were incorporated in that effort, it seems with good
success where they were deployed:
(probably, you'd like to fish out concepts, in your own configurations!)
* Give default choices which turn EasyBuild compatible with its older versions
and env-tools (EASYBUILD_MODULE*)
* Give default choices which turn Lmod compatible with env-modules
(LMOD_TMOD_FIND_FIRST and friends);
important because within certain container images providing Lmod was not
exactly choice, but modules were needed
* MODULEPATH is adjustable at any level:
{global*,site/*,sitelocal/*,nodecategory/*,groups/`id -gn`,user/`id -un`}
* Let Lmod cache to come from an in-mem filesystem (/dev/shm) for great
interactivity and fast startup
* automatically feed logfiles for later processing (spack, graylog and what
not, via LMOD_PACKAGE_PATH)
* settarg and other features work consistently across *both* bash & csh
families - this was a great pain to get right.
* Finally, the implementation is very economical on the user: thanks to guard
variables, it only costs on first login.
This is the Lmod tool that I wished somebody had provided, when I received the
original challenge :)
F.
> The driving need for it has been to combine a few requirements together and
> rationalise the Lmod RPMs:
> * Deliver Lmod across a dozen+ HPC clusters with varying needs of
> configuration, but in a consistent manner.
> * Keep separate what needs to be separate: configuration by upstream Lmod, by
> Bright & by local HPC sites.
> * Changes in one of the above separation of domains should not automatically
> require rebuilding/hacking the RPMs (or, at least, not hack the .spec too
> often).
> There's also a pretty neat extendible mechanism to define initialisation
> variables, check the 2 .yaml files here:
> https://github.com/Bright-Computing/bic/tree/master/test/etc/profile.definitions/site
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