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 > their own eb on out clusterwide installation. And the time saving for > installation is great (except if you make a bad choice and choose foss-2017a > as default tool chain but now I know much more about eb because of all the > modifications I had to make ;-) ) > > There was another interesting point raised about update cycles: what if > something is misconfigured in the easyconfigs for blas for example which > would lead to wrong results for the users using that lib? I know that this is > not directly related to easybuild but wanted to ask anyway... > > About the update checker @Damian pointed to a related pull request (thank > you!). Do I get it right that there is no such thing as checking for newer > versions of installed software? The point why I'm asking is just because I'm > thinking about diving into this. Thinking about something similar to apt > update which simply lists available upgrades. Actually, we have some > python-code that does this for our installed modules and sends its results to > nagios/icinga. This would be more of an update notifier and don't do any > action. If there isn't something like that yet I can have a look how to adapt > our stuff to eb. Any pointer to a good place in the framework is appreciated.
You could take the standpoint that if users don't request new versions, you won't build them. That's what we do for most of the codes. Some of the more heavily used ones, that we basically know we will get requests for anyhow, we try to stay ahead of the users on. But for the most part, if it's not requested, ignore it. -- Ake Sandgren, HPC2N, Umea University, S-90187 Umea, Sweden Internet: a...@hpc2n.umu.se Phone: +46 90 7866134 Fax: +46 90-580 14 Mobile: +46 70 7716134 WWW: http://www.hpc2n.umu.se
