On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Matthias Bernt <m.be...@ufz.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I tried to install velvetoptimizer (for the assembly tutorial in the GTN).
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> It lists velvetoptimiser as requirement in the main xml and the
> tool_dependencies.xml (listing the installation steps). Now there seems to
> be a conda package perl-velvetoptimiser.
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> What would be the steps to to update the tool (I would happily create a PR)?
> Is the tool_dependencies.xml intended to be kept and I just need to update
> the names of the requirements (I guess the name in the tool_dependencies.xml
> does not matter)?


I'd open a PR to adjust the requirement names to match the Conda
package and drop the tool_dependencies.xml all together.


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> Furthermore the tool_dependencies.xml includes the package_velvet which is
> listed as missing dependency in the management pages. Shouldn't this be
> ignored if there is a conda package?

For reproducibility reasons by default Galaxy will prefer a
tool_dependencies.xml file over Conda packages, this is why it is best
just to drop the tool_dependencies.xml file all together if possible.

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> Last question: Is it possible to update an installed package by editing the
> xml files? It seemed to me that changes do not have an effect.

For tool shed packages? I don't think so. This probably works for
tools but the packages have already been installed.

Hope this helps and sorry for the delay.

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> Cheers,
> Matthias
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