Remove support for `cray` as a separate platform.
Any platform previously detected as `cray` is now detected as `linux`.
Users who still need platform=cray have to stick to Spack 0.22
This commit adds a layer of indirection to improve build isolation with
and without external Python, as well as usability of environment views.
It adds `python-venv` as a dependency to all packages that `extends("python")`,
which has the following advantages:
1. Build isolation: only `PYTHONPATH` is considered in builds, not
user / system packages
2. Stable install layout: fixes the problem on Debian, RHEL and Fedora where
external / system python produces `bin/local` subdirs in Spack install prefixes.
3. Environment views are Python virtual environments (and if you add
`py-pip` things like `pip list` work)
Views work whether they're symlink, hardlink or copy type.
This commit additionally makes `spec["python"].command` return
`spec["python-venv"].command`. The rationale is that packages in repos we do
not own do not pass the underlying python to the build system, which could still
result in incorrectly computed install layouts.
Other attributes like `libs`, `headers` should be on `python` anyways and need no change.
This adds support for prereleases. Alpha, beta and release candidate
suffixes are ordered in the intuitive way:
```
1.2.0-alpha < 1.2.0-alpha.1 < 1.2.0-beta.2 < 1.2.0-rc.3 < 1.2.0 < 1.2.0-xyz
```
Alpha, beta and rc prereleases are defined as follows: split the version
string into components like before (on delimiters and string boundaries).
If there's a string component `alpha`, `beta` or `rc` followed by an optional
numeric component at the end, then the version is prerelease.
So `1.2.0-alpha.1 == 1.2.0alpha1 == 1.2.0.alpha1` are all the same, as usual.
The strings `alpha`, `beta` and `rc` are chosen because they match semver,
they are sufficiently long to be unambiguous, and and all contain at least
one non-hex character so distinguish them from shasum/digest type suffixes.
The comparison key is now stored as `(release_tuple, prerelease_tuple)`, so in
the above example:
```
((1,2,0),(ALPHA,)) < ((1,2,0),(ALPHA,1)) < ((1,2,0),(BETA,2)) < ((1,2,0),(RC,3)) < ((1,2,0),(FINAL,)) < ((1,2,0,"xyz"), (FINAL,))
```
The version ranges `@1.2.0:` and `@:1.1` do *not* include prereleases of
`1.2.0`.
So for packaging, if the `1.2.0alpha` and `1.2.0` versions have the same constraints on
dependencies, it's best to write
```python
depends_on("x@1:", when="@1.2.0alpha:")
```
However, `@1.2:` does include `1.2.0alpha`. This is because Spack considers
`1.2 < 1.2.0` as distinct versions, with `1.2 < 1.2.0alpha < 1.2.0` as a consequence.
Alternatively, the above `depends_on` statement can thus be written
```python
depends_on("x@1:", when="@1.2:")
```
which can be useful too. A short-hand to include prereleases, but you
can still be explicit to exclude the prerelease by specifying the patch version
number.
### Concretization
Concretization uses a different version order than `<`. Prereleases are ordered
between final releases and develop versions. That way, users should not
have to set `preferred=True` on every final release if they add just one
prerelease to a package. The concretizer is unlikely to pick a prerelease when
final releases are possible.
### Limitations
1. You can't express a range that includes all alpha release but excludes all beta
releases. Only alternative is good old repeated nines: `@:1.2.0alpha99`.
2. The Python ecosystem defaults to `a`, `b`, `rc` strings, so translation of Python versions to
Spack versions requires expansion to `alpha`, `beta`, `rc`. It's mildly annoying, because
this means we may need to compute URLs differently (not done in this commit).
### Hash
Care is taken not to break hashes of versions that do not have a prerelease
suffix.
This PR makes it possible to select only a subset of virtual dependencies from a spec that _may_ provide more. To select providers, a syntax to specify edge attributes is introduced:
```
hdf5 ^[virtuals=mpi] mpich
```
With that syntax we can concretize specs like:
```console
$ spack spec strumpack ^[virtuals=mpi] intel-parallel-studio+mkl ^[virtuals=lapack] openblas
```
On `develop` this would currently fail with:
```console
$ spack spec strumpack ^intel-parallel-studio+mkl ^openblas
==> Error: Spec cannot include multiple providers for virtual 'blas'
Requested 'intel-parallel-studio' and 'openblas'
```
In package recipes, virtual specs that are declared in the same `provides` directive need to be provided _together_. This means that e.g. `openblas`, which has:
```python
provides("blas", "lapack")
```
needs to provide both `lapack` and `blas` when requested to provide at least one of them.
## Additional notes
This capability is needed to model compilers. Assuming that languages are treated like virtual dependencies, we might want e.g. to use LLVM to compile C/C++ and Gnu GCC to compile Fortran. This can be accomplished by the following[^1]:
```
hdf5 ^[virtuals=c,cxx] llvm ^[virtuals=fortran] gcc
```
[^1]: We plan to add some syntactic sugar around this syntax, and reuse the `%` sigil to avoid having a lot of boilerplate around compilers.
Modifications:
- [x] Add syntax to interact with edge attributes from spec literals
- [x] Add concretization logic to be able to cherry-pick virtual dependencies
- [x] Extend semantic of the `provides` directive to express when virtuals need to be provided together
- [x] Add unit-tests and documentation
For a long time, the docs have generated a huge, static HTML package list. It has some
disadvantages:
* It's slow to load
* It's slow to build
* It's hard to search
We now have a nice website that can tell us about Spack packages, and it's searchable so
users can easily find the one or two packages out of 7400 that they're looking for. We
should link to this instead of including a static package list page in the docs.
- [x] Replace package list link with link to packages.spack.io
- [x] Remove `package_list.html` generation from `conf.py`.
- [x] Add a new section for "Links" to the docs.
- [x] Remove docstring notes from contribution guide (we haven't generated RST
for package docstrings for a while)
- [x] Remove referencese to `package-list` from docs.
## Version types, parsing and printing
- The version classes have changed: `VersionBase` is removed, there is now a
`ConcreteVersion` base class. `StandardVersion` and `GitVersion` both inherit
from this.
- The public api (`Version`, `VersionRange`, `ver`) has changed a bit:
1. `Version` produces either `StandardVersion` or `GitVersion` instances.
2. `VersionRange` produces a `ClosedOpenRange`, but this shouldn't affect the user.
3. `ver` produces any of `VersionList`, `ClosedOpenRange`, `StandardVersion`
or `GitVersion`.
- No unexpected type promotion, so that the following is no longer an identity:
`Version(x) != VersionRange(x, x)`.
- `VersionList.concrete` now returns a version if it contains only a single element
subtyping `ConcreteVersion` (i.e. `StandardVersion(...)` or `GitVersion(...)`)
- In version lists, the parser turns `@x` into `VersionRange(x, x)` instead
of `Version(x)`.
- The above also means that `ver("x")` produces a range, whereas
`ver("=x")` produces a `StandardVersion`. The `=` is part of _VersionList_
syntax.
- `VersionList.__str__` now outputs `=x.y.z` for specific version entries,
and `x.y.z` as a short-hand for ranges `x.y.z:x.y.z`.
- `Spec.format` no longer aliases `{version}` to `{versions}`, but pulls the
concrete version out of the list and prints that -- except when the list is
is not concrete, then is falls back to `{versions}` to avoid a pedantic error.
For projections of concrete specs, `{version}` should be used to render
`1.2.3` instead of `=1.2.3` (which you would get with `{versions}`).
The default `Spec` format string used in `Spec.__str__` now uses
`{versions}` so that `str(Spec(string)) == string` holds.
## Changes to `GitVersion`
- `GitVersion` is a small wrapper around `StandardVersion` which enriches it
with a git ref. It no longer inherits from it.
- `GitVersion` _always_ needs to be able to look up an associated Spack version
if it was not assigned (yet). It throws a `VersionLookupError` whenever `ref_version`
is accessed but it has no means to look up the ref; in the past Spack would
not error and use the commit sha as a literal version, which was incorrect.
- `GitVersion` is never equal to `StandardVersion`, nor is satisfied by it. This
is such that we don't lose transitivity. This fixes the following bug on `develop`
where `git_version_a == standard_version == git_version_b` does not imply
`git_version_a == git_version_b`. It also ensures equality always implies equal
hash, which is also currently broken on develop; inclusion tests of a set of
versions + git versions would behave differently from inclusion tests of a
list of the same objects.
- The above means `ver("ref=1.2.3) != ver("=1.2.3")` could break packages that branch
on specific versions, but that was brittle already, since the same happens with
externals: `pkg@1.2.3-external` suffixes wouldn't be exactly equal either. Instead,
those checks should be `x.satisfies("@1.2.3")` which works both for git versions and
custom version suffixes.
- `GitVersion` from commit will now print as `<hash>=<version>` once the
git ref is resolved to a spack version. This is for reliability -- version is frozen
when added to the database and queried later. It also improves performance
since there is no need to clone all repos of all git versions after `spack clean -m`
is run and something queries the database, triggering version comparison, such
as potentially reuse concretization.
- The "empty VerstionStrComponent trick" for `GitVerison` is dropped since it wasn't
representable as a version string (by design). Instead, it's replaced by `git`,
so you get `1.2.3.git.4` (which reads 4 commits after a tag 1.2.3). This means
that there's an edge case for version schemes `1.1.1`, `1.1.1a`, since the
generated git version `1.1.1.git.1` (1 commit after `1.1.1`) compares larger
than `1.1.1a`, since `a < git` are compared as strings. This is currently a
wont-fix edge case, but if really required, could be fixed by special casing
the `git` string.
- Saved, concrete specs (database, lock file, ...) that only had a git sha as their
version, but have no means to look the effective Spack version anymore, will
now see their version mapped to `hash=develop`. Previously these specs
would always have their sha literally interpreted as a version string (even when
it _could_ be looked up). This only applies to databases, lock files and spec.json
files created before Spack 0.20; after this PR, we always have a Spack version
associated to the relevant GitVersion).
- Fixes a bug where previously `to_dict` / `from_dict` (de)serialization would not
reattach the repo to the GitVersion, causing the git hash to be used as a literal
(bogus) version instead of the resolved version. This was in particularly breaking
version comparison in the build process on macOS/Windows.
## Installing or matching specific versions
- In the past, `spack install pkg@3.2` would install `pkg@=3.2` if it was a
known specific version defined in the package, even when newer patch releases
`3.2.1`, `3.2.2`, `...` were available. This behavior was only there because
there was no syntax to distinguish between `3.2` and `3.2.1`. Since there is
syntax for this now through `pkg@=3.2`, the old exact matching behavior is
removed. This means that `spack install pkg@3.2` constrains the `pkg` version
to the range `3.2`, and `spack install pkg@=3.2` constrains it to the specific
version `3.2`.
- Also in directives such as `depends_on("pkg@2.3")` and their when
conditions `conflicts("...", when="@2.3")` ranges are ranges, and specific
version matches require `@=2.3.`.
- No matching version: in the case `pkg@3.2` matches nothing, concretization
errors. However, if you run `spack install pkg@=3.2` and this version
doesn't exist, Spack will define it; this allows you to install non-registered
versions.
- For consistency, you can now do `%gcc@10` and let it match a configured
`10.x.y` compiler. It errors when there is no matching compiler.
In the past it was interpreted like a specific `gcc@=10` version, which
would get bootstrapped.
- When compiler _bootstrapping_ is enabled, `%gcc@=10.2.0` can be used to
bootstrap a specific compiler version.
## Other changes
- Externals, compilers, and develop spec definitions are backwards compatible.
They are typically defined as `pkg@3.2.1` even though they should be
saying `pkg@=3.2.1`. Spack now transforms `pkg@3` into `pkg@=3` in those cases.
- Finally, fix strictness of `version(...)` directive/declaration. It just does a simple
type check, and now requires strings/integers. Floats are not allowed because
they are ambiguous `str(3.10) == "3.1"`.
Environments and environment views have taken over the role of `spack activate/deactivate`, and we should deprecate these commands for several reasons:
- Global activation is a really poor idea:
- Install prefixes should be immutable; since they can have multiple, unrelated dependents; see below
- Added complexity elsewhere: verification of installations, tarballs for build caches, creation of environment views of packages with unrelated extensions "globally activated"... by removing the feature, it gets easier for people to contribute, and we'd end up with fewer bugs due to edge cases.
- Environment accomplish the same thing for non-global "activation" i.e. `spack view`, but better.
Also we write in the docs:
```
However, Spack global activations have two potential drawbacks:
#. Activated packages that involve compiled C extensions may still
need their dependencies to be loaded manually. For example,
``spack load openblas`` might be required to make ``py-numpy``
work.
#. Global activations "break" a core feature of Spack, which is that
multiple versions of a package can co-exist side-by-side. For example,
suppose you wish to run a Python package in two different
environments but the same basic Python --- one with
``py-numpy@1.7`` and one with ``py-numpy@1.8``. Spack extensions
will not support this potential debugging use case.
```
Now that environments are established and views can take over the role of activation
non-destructively, we can remove global activation/deactivation.
Currently, compiler flags and variants are inconsistent: compiler flags set for a
package are inherited by its dependencies, while variants are not. We should have these
be consistent by allowing for inheritance to be enabled or disabled for both variants
and compiler flags.
- [x] Make new (spec language) operators
- [x] Apply operators to variants and compiler flags
- [x] Conflicts currently result in an unsatisfiable spec
(i.e., you can't propagate two conflicting values)
What I propose is using two of the currently used sigils to symbolized that the variant
or compiler flag will be inherited:
Example syntax:
- `package ++variant`
enabled variant that will be propagated to dependencies
- `package +variant`
enabled variant that will NOT be propagated to dependencies
- `package ~~variant`
disabled variant that will be propagated to dependencies
- `package ~variant`
disabled variant that will NOT be propagated to dependencies
- `package cflags==True`
`cflags` will be propagated to dependencies
- `package cflags=True`
`cflags` will NOT be propagated to dependencies
Syntax for string-valued variants is similar to compiler flags.
The `spack info <package>` command does not show the `Virtual Packages:` output unless the `--virtuals` command option is passed. Before this changes, the information that the command is supposed to be illustrating is not shown in the example and is confusing.
`LD_LIBRARY_PATH` can break system executables (e.g., when an enviornment is loaded) and isn't necessary thanks to `RPATH`s. Packages that require `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` can set this in `setup_run_environment`.
- [x] Prefix inspections no longer set `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` by default
- [x] Document changes and workarounds for people who want `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`
This PR removes a few outdated sections from the "Basics" part of the
documentation. It also makes a few topic under the environment section
more prominent by removing an unneeded spack.yaml subsection and
promoting everything under it.
See #25249 and https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/27159#issuecomment-958163679.
This adds `spack load --list` as an alias for `spack find --loaded`. The new command is
not as powerful as `spack find --loaded`, as you can't combine it with all the queries or
formats that `spack find` provides. However, it is more intuitively located in the command
structure in that it appears in the output of `spack load --help`.
The idea here is that people can use `spack load --list` for simple stuff but fall back to
`spack find --loaded` if they need more.
- add help to `spack load --list` that references `spack find`
- factor some parts of `spack find` out to be called from `spack load`
- add shell tests
- update docs
Co-authored-by: Peter Josef Scheibel <scheibel1@llnl.gov>
Co-authored-by: Richarda Butler <39577672+RikkiButler20@users.noreply.github.com>
The `find` command was missing for the examples forcing colorized output. Without this (or another suitable) command, spack produces output that is not using any color. Thus, without the `find` command one does not see any difference between forced colorized and non-colorized output.
The output order for `spack diff` is nondeterministic for larger diffs -- if you
ran it several times it will not put the fields in the spec in the same order on
successive invocations.
This makes a few fixes to `spack diff`:
- [x] Implement the change discussed in https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/22283#discussion_r598337448
to make `AspFunction` comparable in and of itself and to eliminate the need for `to_tuple()`
- [x] Sort the lists of diff properties so that the output is always in the same order.
- [x] Make the output for different fields the same as what we use in the solver. Previously, we
would use `Type(value)` for non-string values and `value` for strings. Now we just use
the value. So the output looks a little cleaner:
```
== Old ========================== == New ====================
@@ node_target @@ @@ node_target @@
- gdbm Target(x86_64) - gdbm x86_64
+ zlib Target(skylake) + zlib skylake
@@ variant_value @@ @@ variant_value @@
- ncurses symlinks bool(False) - ncurses symlinks False
+ zlib optimize bool(True) + zlib optimize True
@@ version @@ @@ version @@
- gdbm Version(1.18.1) - gdbm 1.18.1
+ zlib Version(1.2.11) + zlib 1.2.11
@@ node_os @@ @@ node_os @@
- gdbm catalina - gdbm catalina
+ zlib catalina + zlib catalina
```
I suppose if we want to use `repr()` in the output we could do that and could be
consistent but we don't do that elsewhere -- the types of things in Specs are
all stringifiable so the string and the name of the attribute (`version`, `node_os`,
etc.) are sufficient to know what they are.
A `spack diff` will take two specs, and then use the spack.solver.asp.SpackSolverSetup to generate
lists of facts about each (e.g., nodes, variants, etc.) and then take a set difference between the
two to show the user the differences.
Example output:
$ spack diff python@2.7.8 python@3.8.11
==> Warning: This interface is subject to change.
--- python@2.7.8/tsxdi6gl4lihp25qrm4d6nys3nypufbf
+++ python@3.8.11/yjtseru4nbpllbaxb46q7wfkyxbuvzxx
@@ variant_value @@
- python patches a8c52415a8b03c0e5f28b5d52ae498f7a7e602007db2b9554df28cd5685839b8
+ python patches 0d98e93189bc278fbc37a50ed7f183bd8aaf249a8e1670a465f0db6bb4f8cf87
@@ version @@
- openssl Version(1.0.2u)
+ openssl Version(1.1.1k)
- python Version(2.7.8)
+ python Version(3.8.11)
Currently this uses diff-like output but we will attempt to improve on this in the future.
One use case for `spack diff` is whenever a user has a disambiguate situation and cannot
remember how two different installs are different. The command can also output `--json` in
the case of a more analysis type use case where we want to save complete data with all
diffs and the intersection. However, the command is really more intended for a command
line use case, and we likely will have an analyzer more suited to saving data
Signed-off-by: vsoch <vsoch@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: vsoch <vsoch@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tamara Dahlgren <35777542+tldahlgren@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Todd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov>
Add a new "spack audit" command. This command can check for issues
with configuration or with packages and is intended to help a
user debug a failed Spack build.
In some cases the reported issues are always errors but are too
costly to check for (e.g. packages that specify missing variants on
dependencies). In other cases the issues may be legitimate but
uncommon usage of Spack and we want to be sure the user intended the
behavior (e.g. duplicate compiler definitions).
Audits are grouped by theme, and for now the two themes are packages
and configuration. For example you can run all available audits
on packages with "spack audit packages". It is intended that in
the future users will be able to define their own audits.
The package audits are good candidates for running in package_sanity
(i.e. they could catch bugs in user-submitted packages before they
are merged) but that is left for a later PR.
- [x] add `concretize.lp`, `spack.yaml`, etc. to licensed files
- [x] update all licensed files to say 2013-2021 using
`spack license update-copyright-year`
- [x] appease mypy with some additions to package.py that needed
for oneapi.py
This adds a new `mark` command that can be used to mark packages as either
explicitly or implicitly installed. Apart from fixing the package
database after installing a dependency manually, it can be used to
implement upgrade workflows as outlined in #13385.
The following commands demonstrate how the `mark` and `gc` commands can be
used to only keep the current version of a package installed:
```console
$ spack install pkgA
$ spack install pkgB
$ git pull # Imagine new versions for pkgA and/or pkgB are introduced
$ spack mark -i -a
$ spack install pkgA
$ spack install pkgB
$ spack gc
```
If there is no new version for a package, `install` will simply mark it as
explicitly installed and `gc` will not remove it.
Co-authored-by: Greg Becker <becker33@llnl.gov>
As of #18260, `spack load` and `spack env activate` now use
`prefix_inspections` from the modules configuration to decide
how to modify environment variables.
This updates the modules configuration documentation to describe
how to update environment variables with the `prefix_inspections`
section. This also updates the `spack load` and environments
documentation to refer to the new `prefix_inspections` documentation.
As of #13100, Spack installs the dependencies of a _single_ spec in parallel.
Environments, when installed, can only get parallelism from each individual
spec, as they're installed in order. This PR makes entire environments build
in parallel by extending Spack's package installer to accept multiple root
specs. The install command and Environment class have been updated to use
the new parallel install method.
The specs and kwargs for each *uninstalled* package (when not force-replacing
installations) of an environment are collected, passed to the `PackageInstaller`,
and processed using a single build queue.
This introduces a `BuildRequest` class to track install arguments, and it
significantly cleans up the code used to track package ids during installation.
Package ids in the build queue are now just DAG hashes as you would expect,
Other tasks:
- [x] Finish updating the unit tests based on `PackageInstaller`'s use of
`BuildRequest` and the associated changes
- [x] Change `environment.py`'s `install_all` to use the `PackageInstaller` directly
- [x] Change the `install` command to leverage the new installation process for multiple specs
- [x] Change install output messages for external packages, e.g.:
`[+] /usr` -> `[+] /usr (external bzip2-1.0.8-<dag-hash>`
- [x] Fix incomplete environment install's view setup/update and not confirming all
packages are installed (?)
- [x] Ensure externally installed package dependencies are properly accounted for in
remaining build tasks
- [x] Add tests for coverage (if insufficient and can identity the appropriate, uncovered non-comment lines)
- [x] Add documentation
- [x] Resolve multi-compiler environment install issues
- [x] Fix issue with environment installation reporting (restore CDash/JUnit reports)
Shell integration no longer requires setting `SPACK_ROOT`, so we can
simplify the documentation on it. The docs on shell support and using
packages are getting a bit old, and information on `spack load` (which
seems to be everyone's most common way of using packages) is hard to
find.
This PR simplifies the shell documentation to remove SPACK_ROOT, and also
moves some sections around for clearer organization.
- [x] make docs on sourcing setup scripts clearer and simpler
- [x] introduce `spack load` early in the basic usage guide instead of
burying it in the module docs
- [x] clean up module docs so that spack module tcl loads comes later
- [x] be clear about the different ways to use packages so that the users
can find the docs better.
Co-authored-by: Massimiliano Culpo <massimiliano.culpo@gmail.com>
* Separate Apple Clang from LLVM Clang
Apple Clang is a compiler of its own. All places
referring to "-apple" suffix have been updated.
* Hack to use a dash in 'apple-clang'
To be able to use autodoc from Sphinx we need
a valid Python name for the module that contains
Apple's Clang code.
* Updated packages to account for the existence of apple-clang
Co-authored-by: Adam J. Stewart <ajstewart426@gmail.com>
* Added unit test for XCode related functions
Co-authored-by: Gregory Becker <becker33@llnl.gov>
Co-authored-by: Adam J. Stewart <ajstewart426@gmail.com>
* Moved link to the right place in the docs
* Fixed a few minor issues in extensions docs
Fixed a typo, added a subsubsection for better
navigation, reworded "modules in Python" as
"Python packages"
* Unified environment modifications in config files
fixes#13357
This commit factors all the code that is involved in
the validation (schema) and parsing of environment modifications
from configuration files in a single place. The factored out
code is then used for module files and compiler configuration.
Attributes were separated by dashes in `compilers.yaml` files and
by underscores in `modules.yaml` files. This PR unifies the syntax
on attributes separated by underscores.
Unit testing of environment modifications in compilers
has been refactored and simplified.
Previously the `spack load` command was a wrapper around `module load`. This required some bootstrapping of modules to make `spack load` work properly.
With this PR, the `spack` shell function handles the environment modifications necessary to add packages to your user environment. This removes the dependence on environment modules or lmod and removes the requirement to bootstrap spack (beyond using the setup-env scripts).
Included in this PR is support for MacOS when using Apple's System Integrity Protection (SIP), which is enabled by default in modern MacOS versions. SIP clears the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` and `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH` variables on process startup for executables that live in `/usr` (but not '/usr/local', `/System`, `/bin`, and `/sbin` among other system locations. Spack cannot know the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` of the calling process when executed using `/bin/sh` and `/usr/bin/python`. The `spack` shell function now manually forwards these two variables, if they are present, as `SPACK_<VAR>` and recovers those values on startup.
- [x] spack load/unload no longer delegate to modules
- [x] refactor user_environment modification calculations
- [x] update documentation for spack load/unload
Co-authored-by: Todd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov>
* Spack can uninstall unused specs
fixes#4382
Added an option to spack uninstall that removes all unused specs i.e.
build dependencies or transitive dependencies that are left
in the store after the specs that pulled them in have been removed.
* Moved the functionality to its own command
The command has been named 'spack autoremove' to follow the naming used
for the same functionality by other widely known package managers i.e.
yum and apt.
* Speed-up autoremoving specs by not locking and re-reading the scratch DB
* Make autoremove work directly on Spack's store
* Added unit tests for the new command
* Display a terser output to the user
* Renamed the "autoremove" command "gc"
Following discussion there's more consensus around
the latter name.
* Preserve root specs in env contexts
* Instead of preserving specs, restrict gc to the active environment
* Added docs
* Added a unit test for gc within an environment
* Updated copyright to 2020
* Updated documentation according to review
Rephrased a couple of sentences, added references to
`spack find` and dependency types.
* Updated function naming and docstrings
* Simplified computation of unused specs
Since the new approach uses private attributes of the DB
it has been coded as a method of that class rather than a
freestanding function.
`spack deprecate` allows for the removal of insecure packages with minimal impact to their dependents. It allows one package to be symlinked into the prefix of another to provide seamless transition for rpath'd and hard-coded applications using the old version.
Example usage:
spack deprecate /hash-of-old-openssl /hash-of-new-openssl
The spack deprecate command is designed for use only in extroardinary circumstances. The spack deprecate command makes no promises about binary compatibility. It is up to the user to ensure the replacement is suitable for the deprecated package.
This feature generates a verification manifest for each installed
package and provides a command, "spack verify", which can be used to
compare the current file checksums/permissions with those calculated
at installed time.
Verification includes
* Checksums of files
* File permissions
* Modification time
* File size
Packages installed before this PR will be skipped during verification.
To verify such a package you must reinstall it.
The spack verify command has three modes.
* With the -a,--all option it will check every installed package.
* With the -f,--files option, it will check some specific files,
determine which package they belong to, and confirm that they have
not been changed.
* With the -s,--specs option or by default, it will check some
specific packages that no files havae changed.
