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Software Installation Tool (SIT)
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SIT is a simple software installation tool inspired by gentoo's emerge script.
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It eases the installation process and helps to prevent errors during the
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installation as well as helps with the documentation as it generates a lot of
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log files and installes them together with the softwre package.
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In its current version it can only install a package using a package class file
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including the necessary information
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The package tree resides per default in the directory $SITi_PATH/packages. For
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convenience it should look like following
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$SIT_PATH/packages/CATEGORY/PACKAGE-VERSION
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The global configuration file of SIT is $SIT_PATH/etc/sit.conf
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It includes a variety of default values:
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PREFIX_BASE
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SRC_POOL
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SCLASS_DIR
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The installation process is currently controled with the following environment
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variables:
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* COMPILER
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* COMPILER_VERSION
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* MPI
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* MPI_VERSION
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To install a package simply call sit with the necessary information provided by
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these variables:
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> [VARIABLE_DECLARATIONS] sit PACKAGE
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e.g.
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> PREFIX_BASE=/opt COMPILER=gnu COMPILER_VERSION=4.5 sit mpi/openmpi-1.5.1
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PACKAGE FILES:
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Package files should include all the necessary information for the installation
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proces. The syntax of the package class files is inspired by gentoo's ebuild files.
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A sit package file must contain at least the following variables
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A archive (source tarball)
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P package (name of extracted source folder)
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URL
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INSTALLER
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Optional varialbes to control the build process are
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CONFIGURE_OPTS options which will be passed to configure
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MAKEOPTS options which will be passed to make (see sit.conf)
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During the installation the following directory paths are used
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WORKDIR working directory to which e.g. sources will be unpacked
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SRCDIR source directory
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BUILDDIR directory in which the package will be build ($SRCDIR/build)
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LOGDIR directory storing the temporary logfiles ($WORKDIR)
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For fine tuning of the installation process the user can overwrite the following
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functions. If not other mentioned they are executed in $BUILDDIR
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src_unpack extract $SRC_POOL/${A} into $WORKDIR
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src_configure configure
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src_build make
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src_pretest
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src_install make install
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src_posttest
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The following helper functions can be used
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unpack recognize and extract a compressed tar file
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