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Hi Jon, |
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> On 3 Apr 2019, at 12:56, Jon Woodring <woodring@××××.gov> wrote: |
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> Looking at the GSOC, I noticed that it’s mentioned that one of Prefix’s goals is to bring Gentoo to HPC, and actually that’s where I was trying to use Prefix. |
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> I don’t know if you’re familiar with Spack https://spack.io/, but I was exploring using Prefix and portage, because it has a larger community and more features. |
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Yes, I’m advocating for using prefix for HEP (at CERN) and HPC in the HSF packaging group, |
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but I think that they are unfortunately more interested in using spack, even though it |
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doesn’t seem to be mature enough for what is its intended use. In any case, since you are |
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from LANL, if your cluster has CVMFS mounted (i.e. /cvmfs/sft.cern.ch), then you can already |
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use prefix! I have prefix installed in CVMFS, which I discussed at CHEP: |
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https://indico.cern.ch/event/587955/contributions/2938043/ |
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Just run /cvmfs/sft.cern.ch/lcg/contrib/gentoo/linux/x86_64/startprefix to get started. |
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In principle, there’s nothing preventing you from using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=‘x86_64’ in your |
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prefix configuration. It’s just not tried by anyone yet. We all use ~x86_64 for now for |
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prefix on Linux. On Mac OS X there’s no stable keyword, ~*-macos are the only ones. |
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My first talk about prefix for HSF packaging group: |
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https://indico.cern.ch/event/672745/ |
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Other related links: |
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https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/workinggroups/packaging.html |
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/hsf-packaging-wg |
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https://indico.cern.ch/category/7975/ |
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Cheers, |
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-Guilherme |
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