On 2/20/19 11:35 AM, Kenneth Hoste wrote:
On 20/02/2019 11:25, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
On 2/20/19 11:19 AM, Jure Pečar wrote:
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:14:29 +0100
Ole Holm Nielsen <ole.h.niel...@fysik.dtu.dk> wrote:
Thanks to the kind Lmod maintainer (Orion Poplawski) of the Fedora/EPEL
repository, the Lmod version in EPEL has been updated today from 6.6.3
to 7.8.16! Thanks also to the people who added to the Bugzilla request
shown below!
Good news! Any gotchas when moving from 6.6 to 7.8?
Yes, it's great to finally have a modern Lmod via an RPM installation!
I had one minor gotcha, namely an incompatible .modulerc file
containing "hide-module zlib/1.2.8". Removing that file solved the
problem.
Welcome to the future! (well, Lmod 7.0 was released Nov 2016, so...)
There was a substantial barrier in building one's own home-grown RPM
package for Lmod :-( I certainly didn't feel knowledgeable enough to
build my own, as many other sites have done it.
Each Lmod RPM I've seen has been customized to very specific site
setups. The people of TACC apparently don't want to provide a public
RPM, which is perhaps quite understandable. So thank God for EPEL!
There's a couple of other gotchas: the format/filename of the Lmod
spider cache file has changed, and the internal format for module
collections has changed.
See also https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/blob/master/README.md#lmod-70 and
https://sourceforge.net/p/lmod/mailman/message/35489261/
Thanks for the heads-up!
/Ole
