[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #1946: sim setup should create a section for the current machine

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#1946: sim setup should create a section for the current machine
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  Reporter:  rhaas        |       Owner:                     
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  reopened           
  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:                     
 Component:  SimFactory   |     Version:  development version
Resolution:               |    Keywords:                     
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Changes (by rhaas):

  * status:  review => reopened


Comment:

 Making a {{{[<machine>]}}} section is actually dangerous on the clusters.
 Simfactory's setup command (both the interactive and the silent variant)
 create settings for sourcebasedir (probably ok since they set it to the
 parent of the current directory) and *also* basedir, and the latter one is
 likely wrong since the default that simfactory uses is $HOME/simulations
 which is almost certainly wrong on clusters.

 So basically we have the situation where half of the information is what
 we want and half is not.

 The fix is likely to try and see if one can make the defaults be the
 values from an existing machine.ini file if one find oneself on a known
 machine. The tricky part is probably to try and see if one can get a mdb
 table for the current machine without an existing {{{defs.local.ini}}}.

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