Introduction

This is the third time I rewrote this package manager, and hope this will be the final version. This time I try to simplify the design to make STARMAN robust and focus on HPC usage. I set down the following goals:

• User can use load command to change shell environment for specific packages like modules.
• Use database to manage information.
• Support package update which is lacked in previous version.

Prerequisites

STARMAN is implemented by using Ruby programming language which is good at writing DSL (Domain Specific Language), so the system should have Ruby installed.

• Ruby >= 2.0
• SQLite

Installation

Put STARMAN in any location, and add the following source statement in your .bashrc:

source <STARMAN_directory>/setup/bashrc

Relogin. Then run setup command to kickoff:

starman setup --install-root <where_you_want_to_put_installed_software> \
--rc-root <where_store_config_and_db_files> \
--cache-root <where_store_packages_and_temporary_files>

Where rc_root (default is $USER/.starman) stores config and history.db which should be accessible by anyone who needs to use STARMAN, and cache_root (default is /tmp/starman) is used to store package source codes. You can put predownloaded packages into cache_root to avoid download.

Usage

When first use, you need to edit the configuration by running:

starman config

An example is:

---
install_root: /nfs/software
cache_root: /tmp/starman
defaults:
  compiler_set: ifort_2013.2.146
compiler_sets:
  ifort_2013.2.146:
    c: /nfs/software/intel/composer_xe_2013.2.146/bin/intel64/icc
    cxx: /nfs/software/intel/composer_xe_2013.2.146/bin/intel64/icpc
    fortran: /nfs/software/intel/composer_xe_2013.2.146/bin/intel64/ifort

You are advised to give each compiler set a good name, and NEVER change them since they will be casted into packages' prefix.

You can list the help message of each command by:

$ starman <command> -h/--help

      _______  _______  _______  ______    __   __  _______  __    _
     |       ||       ||   _   ||    _ |  |  |_|  ||   _   ||  |  | |
     |  _____||_     _||  |_|  ||   | ||  |       ||  |_|  ||   |_| |
     | |_____   |   |  |       ||   |_||_ |       ||       ||       |
     |_____  |  |   |  |       ||    __  ||       ||       ||  _    |
      _____| |  |   |  |   _   ||   |  | || ||_|| ||   _   || | |   |
     |_______|  |___|  |__| |__||___|  |_||_|   |_||__| |__||_|  |__|

STARMAN: Another package manager for Linux/Mac programmer.
Copyright (C) 2015-2018 - All Rights Reserved.

    >>> starman install <package_name> ... [options]

    -r, --rc-root PATH               Set runtime configuration root directory.
    -d, --debug                      Print debug information.
    -v, --verbose                    Print more information including build output.
    -c, --compiler-set NAME          Set the active compiler set by its name set in conf file.
    -k, --skip-test                  Skip possible build test (e.g., make test).
    -j, --make-jobs NUMBER           Set the number of making jobs (currently only works for hdf5 and netcdf).
    -h, --help                       Print this help message.

Install package

$ starman install netcdf

or

$ starman install hdf5 -j 4           # Currently only works for hdf5 and netcdf.

to use more threads to build hdf5.

Load package

In your .bashrc after STARMAN source statement, add the load commands:

starman load netcdf

This command will load the environment settings (e.g., PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH) into current shell (currently only BASH). You can use NETCDF_ROOT environment variable in any place you need to refer to the location of netcdf.

Uninstall package

$ starman uninstall netcdf

or

$ starman rm netcdf

Contribution

If you are familiar with package installation and system admin, you can contribute new packages by writing a package DSL file in Ruby language as netcdf-c.rb.