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title: Agenda for Lmod Zoom Mtg June 06 2023

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# Agenda for Lmod Zoom Mtg June 06 2023

## Attendees

- Robert McLay (TACC)
- Matthew Cawood (TACC)
- Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
- Lara Peeters (HPC-UGent)
- Jörg Saßmannshausen (Imperial College London)
- Pedro (HPCNow!)
- Alexandre Strube (JSC)
- Sven Hansen (RWTH)

## Notes

- Q&A

- New Issues:
  - [issue #653](https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/issues/653): Have module show print the contents of an inherit() module
      - Matt is taking a look at this
  - [issue #655](https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/issues/655): Infinite Loop with spack and py-jupiter
  - [PR #654](https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/pull/654):    Do not use install to copy symbolic links 
- Issue solved or almost solved:
  - [issue #650](https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/issues/650): isFile now returns true if it exists and is not a directory
  - [issue #617](https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/issues/617): Now printing both alias and deferenced module
      - module list
            abc/15 -> abc/15.0.1
      - module --terse list
            abc/15.0.1
            abc/15
      - implementing this is work-in-progress
  - Mailing list: depends_on_any() discussion
      - can be used for something like `depends_on_any(one, two)`
      - see `<add link to mailing list thread>`
        
- Presentation: How EasyBuild connects to Lmod
    - slides @ https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/blob/main/my_docs/23/lmod_zoom_mtg_2023_06_06/presentation.pdf

- Lmod packages for Debian/Ubuntu @ https://github.com/surak/Lmod
    - Should try and talk to current Debian maintainer of Lmod package (Andreas Beckmann  to get these upstream)

- idea of setting "tags" on module load + filtering output of "module avail" based on set tags:
    ```
    module load TensorFlow/2.5.0-foss-2022a  # update $MODULETAGS to 'foo,bar,2022a,GCC-11.2.0'
    ```

    ```
    module avail => only shows which also add '2022a' to $MODULETAGS
    ```
    - can be implemented in hooks
    - Sven @ RWTH has this concept implemented in hooks!
        - avail hook is only ~20 lines of code

## Next meeting

- Tue 11 July 2023
    - (4 July is fireworks day in US)