{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1184","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1184/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1184/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1184/events","html_url":"https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1184","id":57982528,"number":1184,"title":"enhance bootstrap script to allow bootstrapping using supplied tarballs","user":{"login":"boegel","id":620876,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/620876?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/boegel","html_url":"https://github.com/boegel","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/boegel/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/boegel/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/boegel/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/boegel/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/boegel/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/boegel/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/boegel/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/boegel/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/boegel/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":7,"created_at":"2015-02-17T21:10:47Z","updated_at":"2015-02-20T13:16:02Z","closed_at":null,"pull_request":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pulls/1184","html_url":"https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1184","diff_url":"https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1184.diff","patch_url":"https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1184.patch"},"body":"Adds support for bootstrapping from supplied tarballs, by setting `$EASYBUILD_BOOTSTRAP_TARBALLS` to a location where source tarballs named `easybuild-framework.tar.gz`, `vsc-base.tar.gz` etc. are provided before using the `bootstrap_eb.py` script.\r\n\r\nOther enhancements:\r\n\r\n* allow skipping stage 0 (temporary installation of `distribute` which delivers `easy_install`) by defining `$EASYBUILD_BOOTSTRAP_SKIP_STAGE0`\r\n* enabling/disabling debug logging via `$EASYBUILD_BOOTSTRAP_DEBUG`\r\n\r\nThis requires https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/559 in order to make the installation using local tarballs to work correctly.\r\n\r\nThe 'normal' bootstrap from PyPI should be unaffected (i.e. it still works for me ;-)). Installing both with and without providing `vsc-base.tar.gz` works.\r\n\r\nAfter playing around with this, I'm close to rewriting `bootstrap_eb.py` in `bootstrap_eb.sh`, to make it simpler and easier to read..."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/comments/75236082","html_url":"https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1184#issuecomment-75236082","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1184","id":75236082,"user":{"login":"stdweird","id":1517606,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1517606?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/stdweird","html_url":"https://github.com/stdweird","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stdweird/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stdweird/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stdweird/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stdweird/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stdweird/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stdweird/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stdweird/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stdweird/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stdweird/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-02-20T13:16:02Z","updated_at":"2015-02-20T13:16:02Z","body":"also, can you show me the link to the diocs that explain this new functionality?"}}