Re: [easybuild] Lmod 7.8 is now available from the EPEL repository
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 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
Re: [easybuild] Lmod 7.8 is now available from the EPEL repository
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 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'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/ regards, Kenneth
Re: [easybuild] Lmod 7.8 is now available from the EPEL repository
On 2/20/19 11:19 AM, Jure Pečar wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:14:29 +0100 Ole Holm Nielsen 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. /Ole
Re: [easybuild] Lmod 7.8 is now available from the EPEL repository
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:14:29 +0100 Ole Holm Nielsen 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? -- Jurij Pečar HPC Engineer, IT Operations, IT Services EMBL Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany Room 13-401
[easybuild] Lmod 7.8 is now available from the EPEL repository
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! A modern version of Lmod has been a very long-standing wish from many sites running CentOS/RHEL 7. No longer do sites need to build their own locally customized up-to-date version of Lmod, if they are satisfied with the EPEL version. Instructions for installing Lmod from EPEL is in my Wiki: https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/EasyBuild_modules#install-lmod Best regards, Ole On 1/23/19 12:17 PM, Loris Bennett wrote: On Centos 7 I installed EB using the system version of Lmod (6.6.3). I have now installed Lmod 7.3 via its easyconfig. I now have the directory We could always hope that the EPEL maintainers would eventually agree to my request to update Lmod to 7.8 in EPEL, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1651546 It might be beneficial if other sites would add arguments to my request in the Bugzilla, hoping that its priority might be increased. I have seconded your request. Cheers, Loris -- Ole Holm Nielsen PhD, Senior HPC Officer Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark
