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Bug 1243069 - RFE: Support alternatives for compatibility with Lmod
Summary: RFE: Support alternatives for compatibility with Lmod
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: environment-modules
Version: 7.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jan Synacek
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-07-14 17:49 UTC by Orion Poplawski
Modified: 2016-04-27 10:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-04-27 10:50:39 UTC
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Description Orion Poplawski 2015-07-14 17:49:25 UTC
Description of problem:

There are now multiple implementations of the environment modules concept, notably Lmod.  In Fedora I've configured them to both use alternatives to allow either to be installed.  I've also added Provides: environment(modules) to allow packages to depend on either.  I'd tried to make them coexist without alternatives, but that has led to issues, see bug #1243030.  Of particular issue in the non-existence of /etc/profile.d/modules.sh with environment-modules removed as this is the defacto method of initializing it in scripts.

Comment 2 Jan Synacek 2016-04-27 10:50:39 UTC
Since Lmod is not supported in RHEL7, I don't really want to support alternatives of "alternatives" (which environment-modules in a way is) without a really strong reason.


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