--confighelp generates job-* options incorrectly

[pol]

When generating a sample config file, there are two issues:

1. the [job] section lists the options as job-<option>, which causes the option loader to interpret each of these options as job-job-<option>.

For example, the backend-config option is output as: job-backend-config in the [job] section. When setting it (and uncommenting it), easybuild throws this error: ERROR: Failed to parse configuration options: 'parseconfigfiles: no option corresponding with opt job-backend-config dest job_job_backend_config in section job'. Modifying the config file and changing job-backend-config to backend-config fixes the problem. The job- prefix for options in the [job] section should not be there.

2. The job-backend option is in the [config] section instead of in the [job] section. This isn't causing any breakage, but is potentially confusing.

[boegel]

Thanks for reporting this @pol.

This is (mostly?) a duplicate of easybuilders/easybuild-framework#1331, and it should be fixed in vsc-base, cfr. hpcugent/vsc-base#211

job-backend in the config section is kind of deliberate, since it's a general configuration parameter, rather than something specific to the jobs being submitted... I agree it's potentially confusing though.

[pol]

I agree that this is essentially the same issue. I shall close it.