This PR introduces a new build cache layout and package format, with improvements for
both efficiency and security.
## Old Format
Currently a binary package consists of a `spec.json` file at the root and a `.spack` file,
which is a `tar` archive containing a copy of the `spec.json` format, possibly a detached
signature (`.asc`) file, and a tar-gzip compressed archive containing the install tree.
```
build_cache/
# metadata (for indexing)
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spec.json
<arch>/
<compiler>/
<name>-<ver>/
# tar archive
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spack
# tar archive contents:
# metadata (contains sha256 of internal .tar.gz)
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spec.json
# signature
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spec.json.asc
# tar.gz-compressed prefix
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.tar.gz
```
After this change, the nesting has been removed so that the `.spack` file is the
compressed archive of the install tree. Now signed binary packages, will take the
form of a clearsigned `spec.json` file (a `spec.json.sig`) at the root, while unsigned
binary packages will contain a `spec.json` at the root.
## New Format
```
build_cache/
# metadata (for indexing, contains sha256 of .spack file)
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spec.json
# clearsigned spec.json metadata
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spec.json.sig
<arch>/
<compiler>/
<name>-<ver>/
# tar.gz-compressed prefix (may support more compression formats later)
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spack
```
## Benefits
The major benefit of this change is that the signatures on binary packages can be
verified without:
1. Having to download the tarball, or
2. having to extract an unknown tarball.
(1) is an improvement in efficiency; (2) is a security fix: we now ensure that we trust the
binary before we try to run it through `tar`, which avoids potential attacks.
## Backward compatibility
Also after this change, spack should still be able to handle the previous buildcache
structure and binary mirrors with mixed layouts.
- [x] Add `mkdir -p` and `chmod` to ensure `/home/spack-test` exists and
has correct permissions.
- [x] Remove version comments from dependabot-managed action commits
- [x] Don't duplicate comment describing required fixes for distros with
patched git
This PR updates the list of images we build nightly, deprecating
Ubuntu 16.04 and CentOS 8 and adding Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04
and CentOS Stream. It also removes a lot of duplication by generating
the Dockerfiles during the CI workflow and uploading them as artifacts
for later inspection or reuse.
Ubuntu patched git v2.25.1 with a security fix that also
introduced a breaking change, so v2.25.1 behaves like
v2.35.2 with respect to the use cases in CVE-2022-24765
Fixup common tests
* Remove requirement for Python 2.6
* Skip new failing test
Windows: Update url util to handle Windows paths (#27959)
* update url util to handle windows paths
* Update tests to handle fixed url handling
* canonicalize path only when the path type matches the host platform
* Skip some url tests on Windows
Co-authored-by: Omar Padron <omar.padron@kitware.com>
Use threading.TIMEOUT_MAX when available (#24246)
This value was introduced in Python 3.2. Specifying a timeout greater than
this value will raise an OverflowError.
Co-authored-by: Lou Lawrence <lou.lawrence@kitware.com>
Co-authored-by: John Parent <john.parent@kitware.com>
Co-authored-by: Betsy McPhail <betsy.mcphail@kitware.com>
* Fix building container images
Patchelf is bootstrapped from sources, so we cannot
disable that mechanism until a finer selection is
possible in the configuration.
* Build on changes to the Dockerfile
* Don't login to Dockerhub on PRs
* Add a CI job to audit all the packages in the built-in repository
* flecsi: fixed typo for dependency on legion
* py-pythonqwt: fix a typo in variant name
* sollve: removed a conflict with a non-existing variant
* acts: fixed use of wrong variant in dd4hep
Also removed duplicated variant declaration in dd4hep
* aoflagger: update variant of a dependency
Issues introduced indirectly in #22925
* camellia: removed unused variant
Issue introduced indirectly in #26150
* cbtf-*: remove cti variants and dependency on mrnet+cti
Issue introduced in #14178
* flecsale: update variants to match flecsi
Issue introduced in #11679
* grnboost: fixed issue with non-existing variant in a dependency
This package possibly never worked since #8763
* nalu: fixed issue with non-existing variant in a dependency
* open-iscsi: fixed issue with non-existing variant in a dependency
* openspeedshop-*: remove use of non-existing mrnet+cti variant
* percept: fixed issue with non-existing variant in a dependency
* phyluce: fixed issue with non-existing variant in a dependency
Issue introduced in #12952
* phyluce: fixed issue with non-existing variant in a dependency
Issue introduced in #22340
Remove a custom bootstrapping procedure to
use spack.bootstrap instead
Modifications:
* Reference count the bootstrap context manager
* Avoid SpackCommand to make the bootstrapping
procedure more transparent
* Put back requirement on patchelf being in PATH for unit tests
* Add an e2e test to check bootstrapping patchelf
Modifications:
- [x] Removed `centos:6` unit test, adjusted vermin checks
- [x] Removed backport of `collections.OrderedDict`
- [x] Removed backport of `functools.total_ordering`
- [x] Removed Python 2.6 specific skip markers in unit tests
- [x] Fixed a few minor Python 2.6 related TODOs in code
Updating the vendored dependencies will be done in separate PRs
Currently Spack vendors `pytest` at a version which is three major
versions behind the latest (3.2.5 vs. 6.2.4). We do that since v3.2.5
is the latest version supporting Python 2.6. Remaining so much
behind the currently supported versions though might introduce
some incompatibilities and is surely a technical debt.
This PR modifies Spack to:
- Use the vendored `pytest@3.2.5` only as a fallback solution,
if the Python interpreter used for Spack doesn't provide a newer one
- Be able to parse `pytest --collect-only` in all the different output
formats from v3.2.5 to v6.2.4 and use it consistently for `spack unit-test --list-*`
- Updating the unit tests in Github Actions to use a more recent `pytest` version
