[easybuild] updating mathematica easyblock. how to generate the "sources" file?

2015-04-14 Thread Pablo Escobar Lopez
Hi, I need to install Mathematica 10.0.2 which is not supported in easybuild so I will try to update the available easyblock and I have a doubt. I have a Mathematica iso which contains the installer. As far as I know Easybuild doesn't support reading .iso files and I am not sure which is the reco

Re: [easybuild] updating mathematica easyblock. how to generate the "sources" file?

2015-04-14 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Good morning Pablo, I’ve also been there; a “less pure” way to do this is to rely on p7zip, such as: https://github.com/fgeorgatos/easybuild.experimental/blob/master/users/fgeorgatos/my_easyblocks/easybuild/easyblocks/MATLAB-2013a.eb The reason this is not “pure" is that we don’t yet have anythi

Re: [easybuild] updating mathematica easyblock. how to generate the "sources" file?

2015-04-14 Thread Pablo Escobar Lopez
Hi Fotis, that one looks a good solution. one question.why not adding p7zip as a build dependency? this way you could avoid extra workarounds like the start_dir = '..' isn't it? Pablo. 2015-04-14 10:35 GMT+02:00 Fotis Georgatos : > > Good morning Pablo, > > I’ve also been there; a “less p

Re: [easybuild] updating mathematica easyblock. how to generate the "sources" file?

2015-04-14 Thread Jens Timmerman
On 14/04/15 10:54, Pablo Escobar Lopez wrote: Hi Fotis, that one looks a good solution. one question.why not adding p7zip as a build dependency? this way you could avoid extra workarounds like the start_dir = '..' isn't it? +1 for this I've tried (and failed) in the past to create a

Re: [easybuild] updating mathematica easyblock. how to generate the "sources" file?

2015-04-14 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Hi folks, On Apr 14, 2015, at 11:05 AM, Jens Timmerman wrote: > +1 for this > > I've tried (and failed) in the past to create a pure way to do iso extraction > in python, but it's far from simple. > adding p7zip ass a builddependency and setting the extract command in the > sources tuple seem