Modify the packages.yaml schema so that soft-preferences on targets,
compilers and providers can only be specified under the "all" attribute.
This makes them effectively global preferences.
Version preferences instead can only be specified under a package
specific section.
If a preference attribute is found in a section where it should
not be, it will be ignored and a warning is printed to screen.
Add a new config section: `config:aliases`, which is a dictionary mapping aliases
to commands.
For instance:
```yaml
config:
aliases:
sp: spec -I
```
will define a new command `sp` that will execute `spec` with the `-I`
argument.
Aliases cannot override existing commands, and this is ensured with a test.
We cannot currently alias subcommands. Spack will warn about any aliases
containing a space, but will not error, which leaves room for subcommand
aliases in the future.
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Co-authored-by: Todd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov>
This adds a rather trivial context manager that lets you deduplicate repeated
arguments in directives, e.g.
```python
depends_on("py-x@1", when="@1", type=("build", "run"))
depends_on("py-x@2", when="@2", type=("build", "run"))
depends_on("py-x@3", when="@3", type=("build", "run"))
depends_on("py-x@4", when="@4", type=("build", "run"))
```
can be condensed to
```python
with default_args(type=("build", "run")):
depends_on("py-x@1", when="@1")
depends_on("py-x@2", when="@2")
depends_on("py-x@3", when="@3")
depends_on("py-x@4", when="@4")
```
The advantage is it's clear for humans, the downside it's less clear for type checkers due to type erasure.
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
Call setup_dependent_run_environment on both link and run edges,
instead of only run edges, which restores old behavior.
Move setup_build_environment into get_env_modifications
Also call setup_run_environment on direct build deps, since their run
environment has to be set up.
- [x] Add links to information people are going to want to know when adding license
information to their packages (namely OSI licenses and SPDX identifiers).
- [x] Update the packaging docs for `license()` with Spack as an example for `when=`.
After all, it's a dual-licensed package that changed once in the past.
- [x] Add link to https://spdx.org/licenses/ in the `spack create` boilerplate as well.
Credits to @ChristianKniep for advocating the idea of OCI image layers
being identical to spack buildcache tarballs.
With this you can configure an OCI registry as a buildcache:
```console
$ spack mirror add my_registry oci://user/image # Dockerhub
$ spack mirror add my_registry oci://ghcr.io/haampie/spack-test # GHCR
$ spack mirror set --push --oci-username ... --oci-password ... my_registry # set login credentials
```
which should result in this config:
```yaml
mirrors:
my_registry:
url: oci://ghcr.io/haampie/spack-test
push:
access_pair: [<username>, <password>]
```
It can be used like any other registry
```
spack buildcache push my_registry [specs...]
```
It will upload the Spack tarballs in parallel, as well as manifest + config
files s.t. the binaries are compatible with `docker pull` or `skopeo copy`.
In fact, a base image can be added to get a _runnable_ image:
```console
$ spack buildcache push --base-image ubuntu:23.04 my_registry python
Pushed ... as [image]:python-3.11.2-65txfcpqbmpawclvtasuog4yzmxwaoia.spack
$ docker run --rm -it [image]:python-3.11.2-65txfcpqbmpawclvtasuog4yzmxwaoia.spack
```
which should really be a game changer for sharing binaries.
Further, all content-addressable blobs that are downloaded and verified
will be cached in Spack's download cache. This should make repeated
`push` commands faster, as well as `push` followed by a separate
`update-index` command.
An end to end example of how to use this in Github Actions is here:
**https://github.com/haampie/spack-oci-buildcache-example**
TODO:
- [x] Generate environment modifications in config so PATH is set up
- [x] Enrich config with Spack's `spec` json (this is allowed in the OCI specification)
- [x] When ^ is done, add logic to create an index in say `<image>:index` by fetching all config files (using OCI distribution discovery API)
- [x] Add logic to use object storage in an OCI registry in `spack install`.
- [x] Make the user pick the base image for generated OCI images.
- [x] Update buildcache install logic to deal with absolute paths in tarballs
- [x] Merge with `spack buildcache` command
- [x] Merge #37441 (included here)
- [x] Merge #39077 (included here)
- [x] #39187 + #39285
- [x] #39341
- [x] Not a blocker: #35737 fixes correctness run env for the generated container images
NOTE:
1. `oci://` is unfortunately taken, so it's being abused in this PR to mean "oci type mirror". `skopeo` uses `docker://` which I'd like to avoid, given that classical docker v1 registries are not supported.
2. this is currently `https`-only, given that basic auth is used to login. I _could_ be convinced to allow http, but I'd prefer not to, given that for a `spack buildcache push` command multiple domains can be involved (auth server, source of base image, destination registry). Right now, no urllib http handler is added, so redirects to https and auth servers with http urls will simply result in a hard failure.
CAVEATS:
1. Signing is not implemented in this PR. `gpg --clearsign` is not the nicest solution, since (a) the spec.json is merged into the image config, which must be valid json, and (b) it would be better to sign the manifest (referencing both config/spec file and tarball) using more conventional image signing tools
2. `spack.binary_distribution.push` is not yet implemented for the OCI buildcache, only `spack buildcache push` is. This is because I'd like to always push images + deps to the registry, so that it's `docker pull`-able, whereas in `spack ci` we really wanna push an individual package without its deps to say `pr-xyz`, while its deps reside in some `develop` buildcache.
3. The `push -j ...` flag only works for OCI buildcache, not for others
Improve how mirrors are used in gitlab ci, where we have until now thought
of them as only a string.
By configuring ci mirrors ahead of time using the proposed mirror templates,
and by taking advantage of the expressiveness that spack now has for mirrors,
this PR will allow us to easily switch the protocol/url we use for fetching
binary dependencies.
This change also deprecates some gitlab functionality and marks it for
removal in Spack 0.23:
- arguments to "spack ci generate":
* --buildcache-destination
* --copy-to
- gitlab configuration options:
* enable-artifacts-buildcache
* temporary-storage-url-prefix
This patch adds in a license directive to get the ball rolling on adding in license
information about packages to spack. I'm primarily interested in just adding
license into spack, but this would also help with other efforts that people are
interested in such as adding license information to the ASP solve for
concretization to make sure licenses are compatible.
Usage:
Specifying the specific license that a package is released under in a project's
`package.py` is good practice. To specify a license, find the SPDX identifier for
a project and then add it using the license directive:
```python
license("<SPDX Identifier HERE>")
```
For example, for Apache 2.0, you might write:
```python
license("Apache-2.0")
```
Note that specifying a license without a when clause makes it apply to all
versions and variants of the package, which might not actually be the case.
For example, a project might have switched licenses at some point or have
certain build configurations that include files that are licensed differently.
To account for this, you can specify when licenses should be applied. For
example, to specify that a specific license identifier should only apply
to versionup to and including 1.5, you could write the following directive:
```python
license("MIT", when="@:1.5")
```
* Allow branching out of the "generic build" unification set
For cases like the one in https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/39661
we need to relax rules on unification sets.
The issue is that, right now, nodes in the "generic build" unification
set are unified together with their build dependencies. This was done
out of caution to avoid the risk of circular dependencies, which would
ultimately cause a very slow solve.
For build-tools like Cython, however, the build dependencies is masked
by a long chain of "build, run" dependencies that belong in the
"generic build" unification space.
To allow splitting on cases like this, we relax the rule disallowing
branching out of the "generic build" unification set.
* Fix issue with pure build virtual dependencies
Pure build virtual dependencies were not accounted properly in the
list of possible virtuals. This caused some facts connecting virtuals
to the corresponding providers to not be emitted, and in the end
lead to unsat problems.
* Fixed a few issues in packages
py-gevent: restore dependency on py-cython@3
jsoncpp: fix typo in build dependency
ecp-data-vis-sdk: update spack.yaml and cmake recipe
py-statsmodels: add v0.13.5
* Make dependency on "blt" of type "build"
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.
This PR adds a new audit sub-command to check that detection of relevant packages
is performed correctly in a few scenarios mocking real use-cases. The data for each
package being tested is in a YAML file called detection_test.yaml alongside the
corresponding package.py file.
This is to allow encoding detection tests for compilers and other widely used tools,
in preparation for compilers as dependencies.
