Providing Custom Labels for Avail

Lmod writes out the modules in alphabetical order for each directory in MODULEPATH in order:

$ module avail

--------------- /opt/apps/modulefiles/Common ----------------
abc/8.1   def/11.1   ghi/2.3

--------------- /opt/apps/modulefiles/Core ------------------
xyz/8.1   xyz/11.1 (D)

--------------- /opt/apps/modulefiles/Compilers -------------
gcc/6.3  intel/17.0

Sites can replace the directory paths with any label they like. This is implemented by adding a SitePackage.lua file and calling the avail hook. See SitePackage.lua and hooks for how to create SitePackage.lua.

Suppose you wish to merge the Common and Core sections above into a single group named “Core Modules” and change the directory to “Compiler Modules”. The result would be:

$ module avail

--------------- Core Modules -------------------------
abc/8.1   def/11.1   ghi/2.3   xyz/8.1   xyz/11.1 (D)

--------------- Compiler Modules ---------------------
gcc/6.3  intel/17.0

To make this happen you need to do the following. Create a SitePackage.lua file containing:

require("strict")
local hook = require("Hook")

local mapT =
{
   en_grouped = {
      ['/Compilers$'] = "Compilers",
      ['/Core$']      = "Core Modules",
      ['/Common$']    = "Core Modules",
   },
   fr_grouped = {
      ['/Compilers$'] = "Compilateurs",
      ['/Core$']      = "Modules de base",
      ['/Common$']    = "Modules de base",
   },
}


function avail_hook(t)
   local availStyle = masterTbl().availStyle
   local styleT     = mapT[availStyle]
   if (not availStyle or availStyle == "system" or styleT == nil) then
      return
   end

   for k,v in pairs(t) do
      for pat,label in pairs(styleT) do
         if (k:find(pat)) then
            t[k] = label
            break
         end
      end
   end
end


hook.register("avail",avail_hook)

And then set the LMOD_AVAIL_STYLE variable to be:

export LMOD_AVAIL_STYLE="system:<en_grouped>:fr_grouped"

The angle brackets define the default which in this case is en_grouped. A user can set:

export LMOD_AVAIL_STYLE="fr_grouped"

to change to the french labels.