Hi Ole, I think Lmod 6.x doesn't support using a modulerc file. This feature was added in latest Lmod 7.0. See the changelog here https://github.com/TACC/Lmod
What Lmod 6.x supports is hidding a module if the version in the module name starts by dot. e.g. a module like "zlib/.1.2.8" would be hidden by Lmod. To list hidden and non-hidden modules you should do "module av --show-hidden" You can generate hidden modules with Easybuild (including the required dot) using the --hide-deps option http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Manipulating_ dependencies.html?highlight=hidden#installing-dependencies-as-hidden- modules-using-hide-deps You can also use the --hidden option (see build parameters) http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/version-specific/ easyconfig_parameters.html?highlight=hidden If you are using Lmod 6.x and you want to hide modules you will have to regenerate the module files to add the required dot. For this the --module-only option in easybuild can be useful. If you upgrade to Lmod 7.x you can use the modulerc file and avoid renaming module names. regards, Pablo. 2016-11-19 12:57 GMT+01:00 Ole Holm Nielsen <ole.h.niel...@fysik.dtu.dk>: > I think that EB dependencies showing up in .../modules/all are confusing > to end users. We should avoid exposing dependency modules such as > Bison, GCCcore, M4, zlib, etc.etc. to end users. > > Lmod and Tmod apparently allow you to hide modules in a modulerc file. > For Lmod 7.0 the syntax is "hide-module foo/3.2.1". > > However, I can't get this to work. If I create a file > .../modules/all/.modulerc with the line "hide-module zlib/1.2.8", the > zlib still shows up with "module avail". I haven't been able to find > any documentation of the function of MODULERCFILE or .modulerc in Lmod > or Tmod. We're using Lmod 6.5.1 on CentOS 7.2. > > Question: Has anyone succeeded in hiding modules with Lmod in this way? > > Thanks, > Ole > -- Pablo Escobar López HPC systems engineer sciCORE, University of Basel SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics http://scicore.unibas.ch
