AW: [easybuild] Software/easyconfigs update avail check

2017-05-08 Thread Henkel, Andreas
://github.com/mrpdaemon/pmaintcheck _ Von: easybuild-requ...@lists.ugent.be <easybuild-requ...@lists.ugent.be> im Auftrag von Kenneth Hoste <kenneth.ho...@ugent.be> Gesendet: Montag, 8. Mai 2017 09:59:36 An: easybuild@lists.ugent.be Betreff: Re: [easybuild] Software/easyconfigs

Re: [easybuild] Software/easyconfigs update avail check

2017-05-08 Thread Kenneth Hoste
Hi Andreas, On 05/05/2017 08:16, Henkel, Andreas wrote: Hi, @Jens: Thank you very much for your detailed reply. I really appreciate it. Personally, I don't have a problem with all the easybuild packages since they are not opening up for root. I rather appreciate that users could built up

Re: [easybuild] Software/easyconfigs update avail check

2017-05-05 Thread Åke Sandgren
On 05/05/2017 08:16 AM, Henkel, Andreas wrote: > Hi, > > @Jens: Thank you very much for your detailed reply. I really appreciate it. > > Personally, I don't have a problem with all the easybuild packages since they > are not opening up for root. I rather appreciate that users could built up

Re: [easybuild] Software/easyconfigs update avail check

2017-05-05 Thread Henkel, Andreas
Hi, @Jens: Thank you very much for your detailed reply. I really appreciate it. Personally, I don't have a problem with all the easybuild packages since they are not opening up for root. I rather appreciate that users could built up their own eb on out clusterwide installation. And the time

Re: [easybuild] Software/easyconfigs update avail check

2017-05-04 Thread Ward Poelmans
On 04-05-17 10:39, Jens Timmerman wrote: > > On 04/05/2017 08:31, Henkel, Andreas wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Recently we started using eb for our new cluster. Yesterday, in our group >> meeting a question was raised concerning updates and security patches for >> installed software similar to apt

Re: [easybuild] Software/easyconfigs update avail check

2017-05-04 Thread Alvarez, Damian
Just to add on that, you could create drop-in replacements for selected packages. You could create MariaDB-10.X-intel-2016b.eb (for instance), update the easyconfig file every time there is a new release in the 10.X series, and reinstall it on top of the old one, so bug fixes and security

Re: [easybuild] Software/easyconfigs update avail check

2017-05-04 Thread Jens Timmerman
Hi Andreas On 04/05/2017 08:31, Henkel, Andreas wrote: > Hi, > > Recently we started using eb for our new cluster. Yesterday, in our group > meeting a question was raised concerning updates and security patches for > installed software similar to apt update/upgrade, yum update,...? > Or is

[easybuild] Software/easyconfigs update avail check

2017-05-04 Thread Henkel, Andreas
Hi, Recently we started using eb for our new cluster. Yesterday, in our group meeting a question was raised concerning updates and security patches for installed software similar to apt update/upgrade, yum update,...? Or is there a routine to check for newer releases of installed easyconfigs?