support use of glob patterns for paths to files with external modules metadata #3075
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This is useful to better integrate with the pre-packaged software provided by OpenHPC.
@koomie @adrianreber have plans to include metadata files in the software RPMs, so EasyBuild can pick up on them.
For this to work, EasyBuild needs to support a file pattern to be passed to
$EASYBUILD_EXTERNAL_MODULES_METADATA
(rather than a list of absolute paths to files, which would have to be continuously updated).