3.4. Converting Software Collection Scriptlets into Environment Modules
Important
The functionality described in this section is not available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Environment modules allow you to manage, for example, different versions of applications by dynamically modifying your shell environment. To use your Software Collection with the environment module system, convert the Software Collection's
enable
scriptlet into an environment module with a script /usr/share/Modules/bin/createmodule.sh
.
Procedure 3.1. Converting an enable scriptlet into an environment module
- Ensure that an environment-modules package is installed on your system:
#
yum install environment-modules
- Run the
/usr/share/Modules/bin/createmodule.sh
script to convert your Software Collection'senable
scriptlet into an environment module:/usr/share/Modules/bin/createmodule.sh /path/to/enable/scriptlet
Replace /path/to/enable/scriptlet with the file path of theenable
scriptlet you want to convert. - Add the same command
/usr/share/Modules/bin/createmodule.sh /path/to/enable/scriptlet
in the%pre
section of your Software Collection metapackage, below the code generating yourenable
scriptlet.In case you have theenable
scriptlet packaged as a file in one of your Software Collection packages, add the command/usr/share/Modules/bin/createmodule.sh /path/to/enable/scriptlet
in the%post
section.
See the module(1) manual page for more information about environment modules.