Conference notes for 2024 01 09

Agenda for January 9th, 2024 at 9:30 US Central (15:30 UTC)

several questions/requests for changes by Jeremy (cfr. issue #679)
- enhancement for declaring module conflicts
  - let module A declare that it conflicts with any future module X that could get loaded
- modulerc files
  - more dynamic
- dealing with read-only NFS mounts with a stack of provided modules
  - no control over changing them
including module extensions in output of ml --terse avail (issue #667)
- how to discriminate extensions from modules?
- Matthew basically has it working, need to look into tests
Honor MODULES_AUTO_HANDLING request (issue #680)
- essentially transform a prereq into a depends_on under the hood
Kenneth had some questions related to request in EasyBuild from Tmod developer on dropping condition when loading a module to prevent load storm guards
- see easybuild-framework PR #4373
- EasyBuild 5.0 is probably going to switch to using depends_on rather than load by default
some back and forth on Lmod-users mailing list w.r.t. enabling tracing in a module file
- use case is unclear
Alexandre's PR to build Debian package for Lmod (PR #683)
funky issue with zsh & FPATH (internal at TACC)
- one some Linux distros, zsh version is in path to zsh command
- problems occurs when building RPM with zsh 5.8 and then upgrading to zsh 5.9
- only an issue with support for ksh is needed
- FPATH is now changed when needed for different zsh versions