Hi Kenneth, Kenneth Hoste <kenneth.hoste-cru1egdz...@public.gmane.org> writes:
> Hi Loris, > > I assume you used "eb --rebuild --skip" here (as documented in > https://docs.easybuild.io/partial-installations/#partial_installation_skip). > > The assumption here is that there is a module file already. > > If not, then EasyBuild will assume there is no installation yet, and > start again from scratch. > > For a partial installation, you can try to forcibly create a module > file using "eb --module-only --force" before proceeding with > installing the missing bits using "eb --rebuild --skip". OK, that seems to work. > For installation bundles of R packages, I also recommend using the > --parallel-extensions-install option, which will result in launching > the installation of multiple R packages in parallel. That should save > quite a bit of time (but total installation will still take hours). Thanks, I wasn't aware of that option. That will definitely be handy. > This only works for bundles of R packages, not for Python packages, > Perl modules, etc., mainly because we need a reliable way of > determining which packages have to be installed before the > installation of a particular package can be started. That's easy to do > for R packages thanks to good metadata, but it's very messy for Python > packages, unfortunately... I can't say that I am hugely surprised by that :-/ Cheers, Loris > regards, > > Kenneth > > On 05/06/2025 10:12, Loris Bennett wrote: >> Hi, >> Building R-bundle-CRAN-2023.12-foss-2023a.eb fails after over 7 >> hours >> due to an error (which I also encountered two years ago >> https://www.mail-archive.com/easybuild-yrzmcy06TfWu2fxVTW3+XQ@public.gmane.org/msg06737.html>> >> == installing extension GEOmap 2.5-5 (389/432)... >> [snip (24 lines)] >> == ... (took 7 hours 31 mins 4 secs) >> Thus I have a solution and want to rebuild the module. >> However, although the results of the build were not deleted after >> failure, when I restart the build, all the packages are built again from >> scratch. >> Should this be happening? Can I prevent it? >> Cheers, >> Loris >> > > -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Herr/Mr) FUB-IT, Freie Universität Berlin
