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From: Xavier D. <xav...@gm...> - 2021-08-17 05:35:58
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Hi Nick, Currently you cannot "see" the variant through "module avail". "module show <modulename>" has to be use to see the variant commands written inside modulefile: $ ml show foo +bar ------------------------------------------------------------------- /path/to/modulefiles/foo/1.0: variant --boolean bar ------------------------------------------------------------------- However it currently requires to pass a value to all variant without a default value set to evaluate correctly otherwise an error is obtained, like in the below test. I will see if I can change this behavior for Modules 5.0 to allow to omit variant specification when displaying the content of the modulefile [1]. $ ml show foo ------------------------------------------------------------------- /path/to/modulefiles/foo/1.0: variant --boolean bar ERROR: No value specified for variant 'bar' Allowed values are: 1 0 yes no true false on off ------------------------------------------------------------------- Regarding "module avail", variant are not reported currently as modulefiles are not evaluated during an avail command. This is something that can be changed in the future, especially for different search use cases you exposed. But this should be made with care regarding performances. Maybe variant should not be reported on a global "module avail" (to avoid the evaluation of all the modulefiles and also to limit the quantity of information transmitted to the user). Then doing a "module avail mod" would trigger the evaluation of all modulefiles matching "mod" then returning all the available variant of the matching modules. Need to think of a way of reporting such information in an output that can still be efficiently understood by users. Please go ahead and open issues, one for having the variant reported on a "module avail" and another to be able to specify a variant value to search in all available modulefiles (ml av compiler=gcc/9). Both issues will not be addressed quickly as they require a big amount of work, but I will work on this direction. Regards, Xavier [1] https://github.com/cea-hpc/modules/issues/406 Le ven. 13 août 2021 à 15:02, Nick Papior <nic...@gm...> a écrit : > > To add to this. > > It might be cool to also get all modules that match a certain variant value > > say > > ml av compiler=gcc/9 > > would list all modules with variants named compiler and the possible value gcc/9? > > Let me know if I should open an issue? > > Den fre. 13. aug. 2021 kl. 14.59 skrev Nick Papior <nic...@gm...>: >> >> Hi, >> >> How can users see which variants and values are accessible with "module avail". >> >> I tried: >> >> ml av -l >> ml av --indepth >> >> neither showed anything related to variants. >> First when I have loaded a module can I see which variants are available, but here I can't see which values of the variants are available? >> >> Suggestion: >> >> ml av -l (lists all default variants for modules) >> ml av -l <module> (lists all default variants + possible values) >> >> Or is there another way to do this? >> >> -- >> Kind regards Nick > > > > -- > Kind regards Nick > _______________________________________________ > Modules-interest mailing list > Mod...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/modules-interest |
