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+Title: Transition from sys-cluster/singularity to app-containers/apptainer |
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+Author: Marek Szuba <marecki@g.o> |
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+Posted: 2022-03-01 |
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+Revision: 1 |
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+News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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+Display-If-Installed: sys-cluster/singularity |
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+In autumn 2021 the Singularity project joined the Linux Foundation |
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+and changed its name to Apptainer [1]. The change has been reflected |
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+in the renaming of executables/configuration files and environment |
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+variables, as well as a reset of version numbers back to 1.0.0. |
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+ |
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+Apptainer packages include compatibility symlinks to old Singularity |
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+executables, continue to honour old environment variables and will upon |
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+the first run import user data from Singularity directories. Therefore, |
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+for most users it will be sufficient to deselect the old package and |
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+install the new one, e.g.: |
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+ |
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+emerge --deselect sys-cluster/singularity |
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+emerge app-containers/apptainer |
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+However, customisations made to system-wide configuration |
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+in /etc/singularity will have to be applied to /etc/apptainer by hand, |
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+and since the bash-completion rule file has been renamed as well any and |
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+all customisations here will have to be updated accordingly as well. |
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+[1] https://apptainer.org/news/community-announcement-20211130/ |
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