When relocating a binary distribution, Spack only checks files to see
if they are a link that needs to be relocated. Directories can be
such links as well, however, and need to undergo the same checks
and potential relocation.
`spack list` tests are not using mock packages for some reason, and many
are marked as potentially slow. This isn't really necessary; we don't need
6,000 packages to test the command.
- [x] update tests to use `mock_packages` fixture
- [x] remove `maybeslow` annotations
Currently Spack reads full files containing shebangs to memory as
strings, meaning Spack would have to guess their encoding. Currently
Spack has a fixed guess of UTF-8.
This is unnecessary, since e.g. the Linux kernel does not assume an
encoding on paths at all, it's just bytes and some delimiters on the
byte level.
This commit does the following:
1. Shebangs are treated as bytes, so that e.g. latin1 encoded files do
not throw UnicodeEncoding errors, and adds a test for this.
2. No more bytes than necessary are read to memory, we only have to read
until the first newline, and from there on we an copy the file byte by
bytes instead of decoding and re-encoding text.
3. We cap the number of bytes read to 4096, if no newline is found
before that, we don't attempt to patch it.
4. Add support for luajit too.
This should make Spack both more efficient and usable for non-UTF8
files.
Spack's `system` and `user` scopes provide ways for administrators and
users to set global defaults for all Spack instances, but for use cases
where one wants a clean Spack installation, these scopes can be undesirable.
For example, users may want to opt out of global system configuration, or
they may want to ignore their own home directory settings when running in
a continuous integration environment.
Spack also, by default, keeps various caches and user data in `~/.spack`,
but users may want to override these locations.
Spack provides three environment variables that allow you to override or
opt out of configuration locations:
* `SPACK_USER_CONFIG_PATH`: Override the path to use for the
`user` (`~/.spack`) scope.
* `SPACK_SYSTEM_CONFIG_PATH`: Override the path to use for the
`system` (`/etc/spack`) scope.
* `SPACK_DISABLE_LOCAL_CONFIG`: set this environment variable to completely
disable *both* the system and user configuration directories. Spack will
only consider its own defaults and `site` configuration locations.
And one that allows you to move the default cache location:
* `SPACK_USER_CACHE_PATH`: Override the default path to use for user data
(misc_cache, tests, reports, etc.)
With these settings, if you want to isolate Spack in a CI environment, you can do this:
export SPACK_DISABLE_LOCAL_CONFIG=true
export SPACK_USER_CACHE_PATH=/tmp/spack
This is a stop-gap approach until we have figured out how to deal with
the system and user config scopes more generally, as there are plans to
potentially / eventually get rid of them.
**User config**
Spack is a bit of a pain when you have:
- a shared $HOME folder across different systems.
- multiple Spack versions on the same system.
**System config**
- On shared systems with a versioned programming environment / toolkit,
system administrators want to provide config for each version (e.g.
21.09, 21.10) of the programming environment, and the user Spack
instance should be able to pick this up without a steep learning
curve.
- On shared systems the user should be able to opt out of the
hard-coded config scope in /etc/spack, since it may be incompatible
with their particular instance. Currently Spack can only opt out of all
config scopes through overrides with `"config:":`, `"packages:":`, but that
also drops the defaults config, which would have to be repeated, which
is undesirable, especially the lengthy packages.yaml.
An example use case is: having config in this folder:
```
/path/to/programming/environment/{version}/{compilers,packages}.yaml
```
and have `module load spack-system-config` set the variable
```
SPACK_SYSTEM_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/programming/environment/{version}
```
where the user no longer has to worry about what `{version}` they are
on.
**Continuous integration**
Finally, there is the use case of continuous integration, which may
clone an arbitrary Spack version, which optimally should not pick up
system or user config from the previous run (like may happen in
classical bare metal non-containerized filesystem side effect ridden
jenkins pipelines). In fact this is very similar to how spack itself
tries to avoid picking up system dependencies during builds...
**But environments solve this?**
- You could do `include`s in environment files to get similar behavior
to the spack_system_config_path example, but environments require you
to:
1) require paths to individual config files, not directories.
2) fail if the listed config file does not exist
- They allow you to override config scopes, but this is generally too
rigurous, as it requires you to repeat the default config, in
particular packages.yaml, and just defies the point of layered config.
Co-authored-by: Tom Scogland <tscogland@llnl.gov>
Co-authored-by: Tim Fuller <tjfulle@sandia.gov>
Co-authored-by: Steve Leak <sleak@lbl.gov>
Co-authored-by: Todd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov>
Any spec satisfying a default will be symlinked to `default`
If multiple specs have modulefiles in the same directory and satisfy
configured module defaults, then whichever was written last will be
default.
Use of `-R` flag to CTest command causes "empty-14" test to run,
by matching "empty", before the empty-14 target is built.
Patch CTest command in buildscript to match name exactly.
* [geant4] depends_on vecgeom@1.1.8:1.1 range
While previous versions were unclear, the [geant4.10.7 release notes](https://geant4-data.web.cern.ch/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes4.10.7.html) indicate that vecgeom@1.1.8 is a minimum required version, not an exact required version ("Set VecGeom-1.1.8 as minimum required version for optional build with VecGeom."). This will allow some more freedom on the concretizer solutions while allowing geant4 to take advantage of bugfixes and improvements in vecgeom.
* [vecgeom] new version 1.1.17
* For py-torch: Also update dependencies: many version constraints
with an upper bound of @1.9 are now open (e.g. `@1.8.0:1.9` is
converted to `@1.8.0:`).
* For py-torchvision: Also add 0.11.0 and update ^pil constraint
to avoid building with 8.3.0
