Sounds like something that should be added to the Wiki -- Mike, you want to co-ordinate this with Bruce?
BTW, welcome back (?) Bruce ;-) Cheers, Bernard On 4/2/07, Bruce Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi Michael > > > Currently OSCAR uses "modules" to set up environment stuff for users > > automagically. If I wanted to add a new module, where do I put it? I > > just want to add a directory to the path at the moment, but I might > > need to do additional things as well, so I thought I would use the big > > hammer from the start, just for fun. > We used the modules distributed with oscar 4.2 to "modulise" a bunch > of applications we have which are entirely external to OSCAR. I did it > this way : > 1) make a directory under /opt/modules called "modulefiles > 2) make a directory for each package you want modules to know about > 3) write a module file for each version of the package in the subdirectory > > There is a step missing - I can't remember where the path to > modulefiles was set, but I seem to remember that I found out at the > modules documentation page at sourceforge... > > Hope that helps, > Ciao, > Bruce > > -- > Bruce Becker > I.N.F.N. Sezione di Cagliari > Cittadella Universitaria > 09042 Monserrato (CA) , ITALIA > +39 070 675 4982 (w) | +39 347 317 9367 (m) > AIM/GTalk/Skype/MSN/Jabber : brucellino > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
