I recently reworked the dependency resolver documentation and made
this explicit. I don't think the previous revision of that document
mentioned this important caveat at all. Thanks for Galaxy-ing!

Thanks,
-John

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Peter Briggs
<peter.bri...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello Bjoern
>
> Yes it looks like making the 'default' directory into a symlink makes this
> work.
>
> Thanks for your help and sorry not to get back to you sooner!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 20/01/17 16:56, Björn Grüning wrote:
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> can you try to make  /path/to/local_tool_dependencies/my_package/default
>> a symlink?
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Bjoern
>>
>> Am 20.01.2017 um 16:41 schrieb Peter Briggs:
>>>
>>> Dear developers
>>>
>>> I'm having problems trying to use the 'galaxy_packages' dependency
>>> resolver in versionless mode, as described in the docs at:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/latest/admin/dependency_resolvers.html#galaxy-packages-dependency-resolver
>>>
>>> As I understand this: if I manually create a directory structure of the
>>> form e.g. /path/to/local_tool_dependencies/my_package/default/ which
>>> contains an env.sh file, and if my dependency_resolvers_conf.xml file
>>> includes the line:
>>>
>>> <galaxy_packages base_path="/path/to/local_tool_dependencies"
>>> versionless="true" />
>>>
>>> then at run time Galaxy should be able to resolve the following
>>> requirement in a tool XML file:
>>>
>>> <requirement type="package">my_package</requirement>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately although the "versioned" galaxy_packages resolver works as
>>> expected (when placed ahead of the "versionless" resolver), I don't seem
>>> able to get this working with Galaxy v16.10.
>>>
>>> Can anyone point out what I'm doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Best wishes
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
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>>> Peter Briggs peter.bri...@manchester.ac.uk
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