Before this change, in pipeline environments where runners do not have access
to persistent shared file-system storage, the only way to pass buildcaches to
dependents in later stages was by using the "enable-artifacts-buildcache" flag
in the gitlab-ci section of the spack.yaml. This change supports a second
mechanism, named "temporary-storage-url-prefix", which can be provided instead
of the "enable-artifacts-buildcache" feature, but the two cannot be used at the
same time. If this prefix is provided (only "file://" and "s3://" urls are
supported), the gitlab "CI_PIPELINE_ID" will be appended to it to create a url
for a mirror where pipeline jobs will write buildcache entries for use by jobs
in subsequent stages. If this prefix is provided, a cleanup job will be
generated to run after all the rebuild jobs have finished that will delete the
contents of the temporary mirror. To support this behavior a new mirror
sub-command has been added: "spack mirror destroy" which can take either a
mirror name or url.
This change also fixes a bug in generation of "needs" list for each job. Each
jobs "needs" list is supposed to only contain direct dependencies for scheduling
purposes, unless "enable-artifacts-buildcache" is specified. Only in that case
are the needs lists supposed to contain all transitive dependencies. This
changes fixes a bug that caused the needs lists to always contain all transitive
dependencies, regardless of whether or not "enable-artifacts-buildcache" was
specified.
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