Conference notes for 2026 02 10 - TACC/Lmod GitHub Wiki

Lmod Zoom Meeting February 10, 2026

Q/A
Upcoming Presentation EUM 2026 in Portugal
- Robert will join in-person
Issue #788: Markdown Output in Help etc
- confirmation from Alan that this is working, so will be merged => can be Lmod 9.0.7
Issue #804: Issue Commands instead of "module spider"
- need to track what is a user-requested module and what is required because of hierarchy
  - or not: can just give full list of modules
- would be Lmod 9.1
spotty CI
- fails 10% of the time?
- EasyBuild has seen this too a while ago, now fixed
  - see easybuild-framework PR #4176 + easybuild-framework PR #4472
Mailing List Q: Site use of SitePackage.lua w/o Env Var.
- Ward P: use /etc/lmod/lmod_config.lua to find /etc/lmod/SitePackage.lua
- Question: Shoule Lmod add /etc/lmod/ in search path for SitePackage.lua?
Kenneth: module load A B C vs module load A; module load B; module load C
- came up in context of EasyBuild (to speed up setting up build env)
- problem with hierarchical module naming scheme?
  - A may update $MODULEPATH to be able to load B (likewise with B -> C)
  - no, works fine already in Lmod, modules will be loaded in specified order, changes to $MODULEPATH are taken into account in between loads
  - but behaviour is slightly different...
    - if C fails to load, the whole thing is aborted (which is fine for EasyBuild)