There were some loose ends left in ##26735 that cause errors when
using `SPACK_DISABLE_LOCAL_CONFIG`.
- [x] Fix hard-coded `~/.spack` references in `install_test.py` and `monitor.py`
Also, if `SPACK_DISABLE_LOCAL_CONFIG` is used, there is the issue that
`$user_config_path`, when used in configuration files, makes no sense,
because there is no user config scope.
Since we already have `$user_cache_path` in configuration files, and since there
really shouldn't be *any* data stored in a configuration scope (which is what
you'd configure in `config.yaml`/`bootstrap.yaml`/etc., this just removes
`$user_config_path`.
There will *always* be a `$user_cache_path`, as Spack needs to write files, but
we shouldn't rely on the existence of a particular configuration scope in the
Spack code, as scopes are configurable, both in number and location.
- [x] Remove `$user_config_path` substitution.
- [x] Fix reference to `$user_config_path` in `etc/spack/deaults/bootstrap.yaml`
to refer to `$user_cache_path`, which is where it was intended to be.
* Deactivate previous env before activating new one
Currently on develop you can run `spack env activate` multiple times to switch
between environments, but they leave traces, even though Spack only supports
one active environment at a time.
Currently:
```console
$ spack env create a
$ spack env create b
$ spack env activate -p a
[a] $ spack env activate -p b
[b] [a] $ spack env activate -p b
[a] [b] [a] $ spack env activate -p a
[a] [b] [c] $ echo $MANPATH | tr ":" "\n"
/path/to/environments/a/.spack-env/view/share/man
/path/to/environments/a/.spack-env/view/man
/path/to/environments/b/.spack-env/view/share/man
/path/to/environments/b/.spack-env/view/man
```
This PR fixes that:
```console
$ spack env activate -p a
[a] $ spack env activate -p b
[b] $ spack env activate -p a
[a] $ echo $MANPATH | tr ":" "\n"
/path/to/environments/a/.spack-env/view/share/man
/path/to/environments/a/.spack-env/view/man
```
Currently spack is a bit of a bad actor as a zsh plugin, and it was my
fault. The autoload and compinit should really be handled by the user,
as was made abundantly clear when I found spack was doing completion
initialization for *all* of my plugins due to a deferred setup that was
getting messed up by it.
Making this conditional took spack load time from 1.5 seconds (with
module loading disabled) to 0.029 seconds. I can actually afford to load
spack by default with this change in.
Hopefully someday we'll do proper zsh completion support, but for now
this helps a lot.
* use zsh hist expansion in place of dirname
* only run (bash)compinit if compdef/complete missing
* add zsh compiled files to .gitignore
* move changes to .in file, because spack
* Drastically improve YamlFilesystemView file removal via batching
The `remove_file` routine has to check if the file is owned by multiple packages, so it doesn't
remove necessary files. This is done by the `get_all_specs` routine, which walks the entire
package tree. With large numbers of packages on shared file systems, this can take seconds
per file tree traversal, which adds up extremely quickly. For example, a single deactivate
of a largish python package in our software stack on GPFS took approximately 40 minutes.
This patch simply replaces `remove_file` with a batch `remove_files` routine. This routine
removes a list of files rather than a single file, requiring only one traversal per batch. In
practice this means a package can be removed in seconds time, rather than potentially hours,
essentially a ~100x speedup (ignoring initial deactivation logic, which takes about 3 minutes
in our test setup).
* Fix sbang hook for non-writable files
PR #26793 seems to have broken the sbang hook for files with missing
write permissions. Installing perl now breaks with the following error:
```
==> [2021-10-28-12:09:26.832759] Error: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '$SPACK/opt/spack/linux-fedora34-zen2/gcc-11.2.1/perl-5.34.0-afuweplnhphcojcowsc2mb5ngncmczk4/bin/cpanm'
```
Temporarily add write permissions to the original file so it can be
overwritten with the patched one.
And test that file permissions are preserved in sbang even for non-writable files
Co-authored-by: Harmen Stoppels <harmenstoppels@gmail.com>
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>
