[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #618: damiana setup in simfactory is wrong

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#618: damiana setup in simfactory is wrong
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  Reporter:  baiotti@…                  |       Owner:  eschnett         
      Type:  defect                     |      Status:  closed           
  Priority:  blocker                    |   Milestone:  ET_2011_10       
 Component:  SimFactory                 |     Version:                   
Resolution:  invalid                    |    Keywords:  error in database
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Comment (by barry.wardell):

 Replying to [comment:4 hinder]:
 > The other argument in favour of having a single source tree is that it
 is weird if you are using datura (for example) as your "central" source
 location.  You would end up syncing the tree to the damiana directory on
 the same machine, and I'm not even sure if this works.  Perhaps the ideal
 solution would be to have different configuration and exe directories for
 each machine. So you would have a single Cactus directory with
 Cactus/damiana/exe, Cactus/damiana/configs, Cactus/datura/exe,
 Cactus/datura/configs.  Cactus can be told to use a different configs (and
 exe?) directory with an environment variable.

 I think I remember discussing this before at some stage. The suggestion I
 liked best (and the one I currently use) is to have a single source tree
 and to have separate configurations named after the machine. If SimFactory
 was to use the machine name as the configuration name instead of 'sim' (I
 think this was also proposed at some stage), then this would be an ideal
 setup as it should 'just work' without needing to specify the
 configuration each time.

 > This doesn't solve the problem of having to specify which machine you
 want to use when running every simfactory command.  In my case, I would be
 satisfied by having a default.  Currently simfactory refuses to run unless
 you tell it which machine.  I would like to select datura as the default
 in that case, as I rarely use damiana.  SimFactory should also carefully
 check that you don't use a damiana configuration on datura and vice-versa
 (for building and submitting etc).

 I agree that this would be a nice feature to have, although it is somewhat
 of a separate issue to the one Luca is reporting.

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