Re: [easybuild] Lmod 7.8 is now available from the EPEL repository

2019-02-20 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen

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

2019-02-20 Thread Kenneth Hoste

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

2019-02-20 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen

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

2019-02-20 Thread Jure Pečar
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?


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