Re: [easybuild] Sending text to the command line during installation

[Niek de Klein]

Thanks Ward and Kenneth, enough options to use

Niek

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Kenneth Hoste 
wrote:

> Hi Niek,
>
>
> On 11/06/15 10:31, Niek de Klein wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to write an .eb file for Anacona, which has a binary file
>> installer. During installation you have to send to the command line:
>> , yes, path/to/install/. I use easyblock = 'Binary'.
>> The first two steps (pressing enter and saying yes) I can do by using
>>
>>   install_cmd = 'sh %(name)s-%(version)s.sh | yes'
>>
>> However, I don't know how to send the install path to the command line
>> after pressing yes. Is there already support in EasyBuild for sending text
>> to the command line during installation?
>>
>
> You have a couple of options here (in order of my preference)
>
> i) You can enhance the BInary generic easyblock so you can specify a
> string to be passed to stdin of the install command; you can do this via
> the 'inp' named argument in the run_cmd function used by the Binary
> easyblock
>
> ii) You can write an easyblock that derives from Binary, and uses the
> 'inp' argument in run_cmd to pass 'yes' and the install dir.
>
> iii) You can write an easyblock that uses run_cmd_qa, to interact with the
> interactive installer (see
> https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93=run_cmd_qa
> ).
>
>
> regards,
>
> Kenneth
>

Re: [easybuild] Sending text to the command line during installation

[Kenneth Hoste]

Hi Niek,

On 11/06/15 10:31, Niek de Klein wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to write an .eb file for Anacona, which has a binary file 
installer. During installation you have to send to the command line: 
, yes, path/to/install/. I use easyblock = 
'Binary'. The first two steps (pressing enter and saying yes) I can do 
by using


  install_cmd = 'sh %(name)s-%(version)s.sh | yes'

However, I don't know how to send the install path to the command line 
after pressing yes. Is there already support in EasyBuild for sending 
text to the command line during installation?


You have a couple of options here (in order of my preference)

i) You can enhance the BInary generic easyblock so you can specify a 
string to be passed to stdin of the install command; you can do this via 
the 'inp' named argument in the run_cmd function used by the Binary 
easyblock


ii) You can write an easyblock that derives from Binary, and uses the 
'inp' argument in run_cmd to pass 'yes' and the install dir.


iii) You can write an easyblock that uses run_cmd_qa, to interact with 
the interactive installer (see 
https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93=run_cmd_qa).



regards,

Kenneth

Re: [easybuild] Sending text to the command line during installation

[Ward Poelmans]

Hi Niek,

We have support for installing software through a question/answer
system. But you will need a custom easyblock for it. For example, take
a look at the Mathematica easyblock:
https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/blob/master/easybuild/easyblocks/m/mathematica.py

The install path can be access by `%(installdir)s` variable in an easyconfig.

Ward

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Niek de Klein  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to write an .eb file for Anacona, which has a binary file
> installer. During installation you have to send to the command line:
> , yes, path/to/install/. I use easyblock = 'Binary'.
> The first two steps (pressing enter and saying yes) I can do by using
>
>   install_cmd = 'sh %(name)s-%(version)s.sh | yes'
>
> However, I don't know how to send the install path to the command line after
> pressing yes. Is there already support in EasyBuild for sending text to the
> command line during installation?
>
> Thanks,
> Niek



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[easybuild] Sending text to the command line during installation

[Niek de Klein]

Hi all,

I'm trying to write an .eb file for Anacona, which has a binary file
installer. During installation you have to send to the command line:
, yes, path/to/install/. I use easyblock = 'Binary'.
The first two steps (pressing enter and saying yes) I can do by using

  install_cmd = 'sh %(name)s-%(version)s.sh | yes'

However, I don't know how to send the install path to the command line
after pressing yes. Is there already support in EasyBuild for sending text
to the command line during installation?

Thanks,
Niek