Conference call notes 20190612 - easybuilders/easybuild GitHub Wiki
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Notes on the 126th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday June 12th 2019 (17:00 - 17:30 CEST)
Attendees
Alphabetical list of attendees (4):
- Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, Oxford)
- Damian Alvarez (Jülich Supercomputing Centre)
- Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University)
- Fotis Georgatos (SDSC, Switzerland)
Agenda
- Update on Singularity support
- Update on progress towards EasyBuild 4.0
- Q&A
Update on Singularity support
-
Install default OS packages for new recipes
-
Install OS packages specified in
osdeps
for the selected easyconfig files -
Single container configuration option with
--container-config
-
Easybuild configuration through environment variables
-
Pass additional options to
eb
in recipe -
Fotis: Maybe consider additional option to install other OS packages in addition to the default ones.
Update on progress towards EasyBuild 4.0
- Fotis: Any news on the support for YAML easyconfig files?
- Since YAML is a broader standard, input for EB could be dumped directly from other tools written in different languages.