Comment (by Roland Haas):

@Steven R. Brandt also came across this issue of sourcebasedir not being set when running sim setup-silent on known machines and in a directory different from what simfactory has in its machine database (private communication).

This ticket may serve as a catchall to collect discussion and possible patches.

The issue does not occur in the “official” workflow (see SF paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.4571 page 4, “A. Managing Source Code“), which would avoid ever running sim setup on the cluster (and never run GetComponents there either).

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/1946/sim-setup-should-create-a-section-for-the