Yes, the modification suggested by you is of course acceptable :-).
Your suggestion with module unuse/module use in ~/.modulerc works just fine.
Thanks a lot
On 07.04.22 19:28, Paul Markfort wrote:
> If modify "/a/b/c:/d/e/f:/g/h/i" into "/d/e/f:/a/b/c:/g/h/i" would be
> acceptable,
> you could remove then prepend "/d/e/f"
>
> I think you could also do this with use
>
> unuse /d/e/f
> use /d/e/f
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2022-04-07 12:10 PM, Frank Thommen wrote:
>> Thanks a lot. I finally found this in the documentation, too. I
>> hadn't understood it at first reading but your mail made it clear to
>> me. Maybe this - imho unexpected - behaviour could/should be
>> emphasized in the documentation?
>>
>> I don't know about "collections" yet. I'll look that up in the
>> documentation.
>>
>> In our case, due to certain special circumstances, we need /some/
>> users to prepend the - already configured - path to one of our
>> modulefile directories to $MODULEPATH (ie. the idea was to modify
>> "/a/b/c:/d/e/f:/g/h/i" into "/d/e/f:/a/b/c:/d/e/f:/g/h/i". I now
>> realize that this doesn't work anyway, as a path already existing in
>> $MODULEPATH is not added again :-(.
>>
>> I'll have to see if I can find a workaround.
>>
>> For the more general problem that I'm having with the configuration
>> mechanics of modules I will open a separate thread.
>>
>> Cheers, Frank
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06.04.22 08:21, Xavier Delaruelle wrote:
>>> The etc/modulespath and etc/initrc configuration files are evaluated
>>> during Modules initialization only if MODULEPATH and LOADEDMODULES
>>> environment variables are found unset or empty.
>>>
>>> When a module command is run, the ~/.modulerc file is evaluated. It
>>> happens also for the autoinit command, which is run to initialize
>>> Modules.
>>>
>>> So in your situation, during the initialization of Modules,
>>> MODULEPATH is defined by ~/.modulerc commands, so the etc/modulespath
>>> file is not processed.
>>>
>>> I would recommend not to set MODULEPATH in ~/.modulerc file
>>> (etc/modulespath, etc/initrc or collection files should be preferred
>>> to define the modulepaths). But one way to workaround this issue is
>>> to update ~/.modulerc with the following code:
>>>
>>> $ cat ~/.modulerc
>>> #%Module
>>> if {![module-info command autoinit]} {
>>> module use --append /a/b/c
>>> append-path MODULEPATH /d/e/f
>>> }
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Xavier
>>>
>>> Le mar. 5 avr. 2022 à 23:59, Frank Thommen
>>> <f.t...@dk... <mailto:f.t...@dk...>>
>>> a écrit :
>>>
>>> they are defined in etc/modulespath. If I leave ~/.modulerc empty,
>>> $MODULEPATH is $CENTRALLY_SET_MODULEPATHS
>>>
>>> On 05.04.22 17:45, Xav...@CE...
>>> <mailto:Xav...@CE...> wrote:
>>> > Hi Frank,
>>> >
>>> > Could you describe where and how the
>>> $CENTRALLY_SET_MODULEPATHS are
>>> > defined ?
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> > Xavier
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, 2022-04-05 at 17:28 +0200, Frank Thommen wrote:
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> this is most probably a silly error on my side, but I haven't
>>> found
>>> >> the
>>> >> solution: When having a custom ~/.modulerc with
>>> >>
>>> >> #%Module
>>> >> module use --append /a/b/c
>>> >> append-path MODULEPATH /d/e/f
>>> >>
>>> >> the resulting $MODULEPATH is "/a/b/c:/d/e/f". I would have
>>> >> expected it
>>> >> to be "$CENTRALLY_SET_MODULEPATHS:/a/b/c:/d/e/f". When only
>>> using
>>> >> `append-path` it looks similar:
>>> >>
>>> >> #%Module
>>> >> append-path MODULEPATH /d/e/f
>>> >>
>>> >> results in $MODULEPATH being "/d/e/f" instead of
>>> >> "$CENTRALLY_SET_MODULEPATHS:/d/e/f".
>>> >>
>>> >> This is with Modules 5.0.1 on CentOS 7.9 systems. We have not
>>> >> changed
>>> >> any of the other configuration files after the installation
>>> other
>>> >> than
>>> >> populating etc/modulespath with our central modulefile
>>> repository
>>> >> pathes.
>>> >>
>>> >> What have I overlooked?
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers, Frank
>>> >>
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