Packaging (and mpi folks as they are the main users of modules) -
In addition to the current environment-modules package in Fedora,
there is at least one other implementation of the "environment modules"
system - Lmod. This is Lua based rather than C/TCL based but can handle
the TCL based module file format as well as a lua based format with a
.lua extension. There is also the pure TCL version of
environment-modules which some seem to prefer.
I'd like to package Lmod for Fedora as well. My current plan is to
use alternatives for the /etc/profile.d/modules.* links in order to
allow both to coexist. I think we also want to move the current
/usr/share/Modules/modulefiles system module file location to
/usr/share/modulefiles (which would be owned by both environment-modules
and Lmod). That way either package can make use of the modulefiles
installed by other packages. environment-modules currently ships some
sample modules which I'm not yet sure should stay in
/usr/share/Modules/modulefiles (and only be used by it) or if they
should get moved to /usr/share/modulefiles for Lmod's use as well (some
are generic, some specific to environment-modules)
We also would need some kind of virtual provide I believe for module
using packages to require instead of the current "environment-modules".
Perhaps environment-modules(system) or environment(modules)?
Suggestions welcome.
Any other comments?
- Orion
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