node_flag_propagation_candidate: special cases for multiple node attrs

Compiler flag test still fail

.github/pull_request_template.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-<!--  
-Remember that `spackbot` can help with your PR in multiple ways:
-- `@spackbot help` shows all the commands that are currently available
-- `@spackbot fix style` tries to push a commit to fix style issues in this PR
-- `@spackbot re-run pipeline` runs the pipelines again, if you have write access to the repository 
--->

.github/workflows/audit.yaml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
         operating_system: ["ubuntu-latest", "macos-latest"]
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # @v2
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@0a5c61591373683505ea898e09a3ea4f39ef2b9c # @v2
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@65d7f2d534ac1bc67fcd62888c5f4f3d2cb2b236 # @v2
       with:
         python-version: ${{inputs.python_version}}
     - name: Install Python packages
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
           . share/spack/setup-env.sh
           $(which spack) audit packages
           $(which spack) audit externals
-    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@54bcd8715eee62d40e33596ef5e8f0f48dbbccab # @v2.1.0
+    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@eaaf4bedf32dbdc6b720b63067d99c4d77d6047d # @v2.1.0
       if: ${{ inputs.with_coverage == 'true' }}
       with:
         flags: unittests,audits

.github/workflows/bootstrap.yml

@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ jobs:
           brew install cmake bison@2.7 tree
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@0a5c61591373683505ea898e09a3ea4f39ef2b9c # @v2
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@65d7f2d534ac1bc67fcd62888c5f4f3d2cb2b236 # @v2
         with:
           python-version: "3.12"
       - name: Bootstrap clingo

.github/workflows/build-containers.yml

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # @v2
 
-      - uses: docker/metadata-action@8e5442c4ef9f78752691e2d8f8d19755c6f78e81
+      - uses: docker/metadata-action@96383f45573cb7f253c731d3b3ab81c87ef81934
         id: docker_meta
         with:
           images: |
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@68827325e0b33c7199eb31dd4e31fbe9023e06e3
 
       - name: Set up Docker Buildx
-        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@0d103c3126aa41d772a8362f6aa67afac040f80c
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@f95db51fddba0c2d1ec667646a06c2ce06100226
 
       - name: Log in to GitHub Container Registry
         uses: docker/login-action@343f7c4344506bcbf9b4de18042ae17996df046d
@@ -113,10 +113,12 @@ jobs:
           password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
 
       - name: Build & Deploy ${{ matrix.dockerfile[0] }}
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@4a13e500e55cf31b7a5d59a38ab2040ab0f42f56
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@0565240e2d4ab88bba5387d719585280857ece09
         with:
           context: dockerfiles/${{ matrix.dockerfile[0] }}
           platforms: ${{ matrix.dockerfile[1] }}
           push: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
+          cache-from: type=gha
+          cache-to: type=gha,mode=max
           tags: ${{ steps.docker_meta.outputs.tags }}
           labels: ${{ steps.docker_meta.outputs.labels }}

.github/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
             # For pull requests it's not necessary to checkout the code
-      - uses: dorny/paths-filter@de90cc6fb38fc0963ad72b210f1f284cd68cea36
+      - uses: dorny/paths-filter@4512585405083f25c027a35db413c2b3b9006d50
         id: filter
         with:
           # See https://github.com/dorny/paths-filter/issues/56 for the syntax used below

.github/workflows/nightly-win-builds.yml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@0a5c61591373683505ea898e09a3ea4f39ef2b9c
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@65d7f2d534ac1bc67fcd62888c5f4f3d2cb2b236
       with:
         python-version: 3.9
     - name: Install Python packages

.github/workflows/style/requirements.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-black==24.2.0
-clingo==5.7.1
-flake8==7.0.0
-isort==5.13.2
-mypy==1.8.0
+black==23.10.1
+clingo==5.6.2
+flake8==6.1.0
+isort==5.12.0
+mypy==1.6.1
 types-six==1.16.21.9
-vermin==1.6.0
+vermin==1.5.2

.github/workflows/unit_tests.yaml

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # @v2
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@0a5c61591373683505ea898e09a3ea4f39ef2b9c # @v2
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@65d7f2d534ac1bc67fcd62888c5f4f3d2cb2b236 # @v2
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
     - name: Install System packages
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ jobs:
           UNIT_TEST_COVERAGE: ${{ matrix.python-version == '3.11' }}
       run: |
           share/spack/qa/run-unit-tests
-    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@54bcd8715eee62d40e33596ef5e8f0f48dbbccab
+    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@eaaf4bedf32dbdc6b720b63067d99c4d77d6047d
       with:
         flags: unittests,linux,${{ matrix.concretizer }}
   # Test shell integration
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # @v2
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@0a5c61591373683505ea898e09a3ea4f39ef2b9c # @v2
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@65d7f2d534ac1bc67fcd62888c5f4f3d2cb2b236 # @v2
       with:
         python-version: '3.11'
     - name: Install System packages
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ jobs:
           COVERAGE: true
       run: |
           share/spack/qa/run-shell-tests
-    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@54bcd8715eee62d40e33596ef5e8f0f48dbbccab
+    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@eaaf4bedf32dbdc6b720b63067d99c4d77d6047d
       with:
         flags: shelltests,linux
 
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # @v2
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@0a5c61591373683505ea898e09a3ea4f39ef2b9c # @v2
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@65d7f2d534ac1bc67fcd62888c5f4f3d2cb2b236 # @v2
       with:
         python-version: '3.11'
     - name: Install System packages
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ jobs:
           SPACK_TEST_SOLVER: clingo
       run: |
           share/spack/qa/run-unit-tests
-    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@54bcd8715eee62d40e33596ef5e8f0f48dbbccab # @v2.1.0
+    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@eaaf4bedf32dbdc6b720b63067d99c4d77d6047d # @v2.1.0
       with:
         flags: unittests,linux,clingo
   # Run unit tests on MacOS
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # @v2
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@0a5c61591373683505ea898e09a3ea4f39ef2b9c # @v2
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@65d7f2d534ac1bc67fcd62888c5f4f3d2cb2b236 # @v2
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
     - name: Install Python packages
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ jobs:
         $(which spack) bootstrap disable spack-install
         $(which spack) solve zlib
         common_args=(--dist loadfile --tx '4*popen//python=./bin/spack-tmpconfig python -u ./bin/spack python' -x)
-        $(which spack) unit-test --verbose --cov --cov-config=pyproject.toml --cov-report=xml:coverage.xml "${common_args[@]}"
-    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@54bcd8715eee62d40e33596ef5e8f0f48dbbccab
+        $(which spack) unit-test --cov --cov-config=pyproject.toml --cov-report=xml:coverage.xml "${common_args[@]}"
+    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@eaaf4bedf32dbdc6b720b63067d99c4d77d6047d
       with:
         flags: unittests,macos

.github/workflows/valid-style.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@0a5c61591373683505ea898e09a3ea4f39ef2b9c
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@65d7f2d534ac1bc67fcd62888c5f4f3d2cb2b236
       with:
         python-version: '3.11'
         cache: 'pip'
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@0a5c61591373683505ea898e09a3ea4f39ef2b9c
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@65d7f2d534ac1bc67fcd62888c5f4f3d2cb2b236
       with:
         python-version: '3.11'
         cache: 'pip'

.github/workflows/windows_python.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@0a5c61591373683505ea898e09a3ea4f39ef2b9c
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@65d7f2d534ac1bc67fcd62888c5f4f3d2cb2b236
       with:
         python-version: 3.9
     - name: Install Python packages
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
         ./share/spack/qa/validate_last_exit.ps1
         coverage combine -a
         coverage xml
-    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@54bcd8715eee62d40e33596ef5e8f0f48dbbccab
+    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@eaaf4bedf32dbdc6b720b63067d99c4d77d6047d
       with:
         flags: unittests,windows
   unit-tests-cmd:
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@0a5c61591373683505ea898e09a3ea4f39ef2b9c
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@65d7f2d534ac1bc67fcd62888c5f4f3d2cb2b236
       with:
         python-version: 3.9
     - name: Install Python packages
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ jobs:
         ./share/spack/qa/validate_last_exit.ps1
         coverage combine -a
         coverage xml
-    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@54bcd8715eee62d40e33596ef5e8f0f48dbbccab
+    - uses: codecov/codecov-action@eaaf4bedf32dbdc6b720b63067d99c4d77d6047d
       with:
         flags: unittests,windows
   build-abseil:
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@0a5c61591373683505ea898e09a3ea4f39ef2b9c
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@65d7f2d534ac1bc67fcd62888c5f4f3d2cb2b236
       with:
         python-version: 3.9
     - name: Install Python packages

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,290 +1,3 @@
-# v0.21.0 (2023-11-11)
-
-`v0.21.0` is a major feature release.
-
-## Features in this release
-
-1. **Better error messages with condition chaining**
-
-   In v0.18, we added better error messages that could tell you what problem happened,
-   but they couldn't tell you *why* it happened. `0.21` adds *condition chaining* to the
-   solver, and Spack can now trace back through the conditions that led to an error and
-   build a tree of causes potential causes and where they came from. For example:
-
-   ```console
-   $ spack solve hdf5 ^cmake@3.0.1
-   ==> Error: concretization failed for the following reasons:
-
-      1. Cannot satisfy 'cmake@3.0.1'
-      2. Cannot satisfy 'cmake@3.0.1'
-           required because hdf5 ^cmake@3.0.1 requested from CLI
-      3. Cannot satisfy 'cmake@3.18:' and 'cmake@3.0.1
-           required because hdf5 ^cmake@3.0.1 requested from CLI
-           required because hdf5 depends on cmake@3.18: when @1.13:
-             required because hdf5 ^cmake@3.0.1 requested from CLI
-      4. Cannot satisfy 'cmake@3.12:' and 'cmake@3.0.1
-           required because hdf5 depends on cmake@3.12:
-             required because hdf5 ^cmake@3.0.1 requested from CLI
-           required because hdf5 ^cmake@3.0.1 requested from CLI
-   ```
-
-   More details in #40173.
-
-2. **OCI build caches**
-
-   You can now use an arbitrary [OCI](https://opencontainers.org) registry as a build
-   cache:
-
-   ```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 creds
-   $ spack buildcache push my_registry [specs...]
-   ```
-
-   And you can optionally add a base image to get *runnable* images:
-
-   ```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
-   ```
-
-   This creates a container image from the Spack installations on the host system,
-   without the need to run `spack install` from a `Dockerfile` or `sif` file. It also
-   addresses the inconvenience of losing binaries of dependencies when `RUN spack
-   install` fails inside `docker build`.
-
-   Further, the container image layers and build cache tarballs are the same files. This
-   means that `spack install` and `docker pull` use the exact same underlying binaries.
-   If you previously used `spack install` inside of `docker build`, this feature helps
-   you save storage by a factor two.
-
-   More details in #38358.
-
-3. **Multiple versions of build dependencies**
-
-   Increasingly, complex package builds require multiple versions of some build
-   dependencies. For example, Python packages frequently require very specific versions
-   of `setuptools`, `cython`, and sometimes different physics packages require different
-   versions of Python to build. The concretizer enforced that every solve was *unified*,
-   i.e., that there only be one version of every package. The concretizer now supports
-   "duplicate" nodes for *build dependencies*, but enforces unification through
-   transitive link and run dependencies. This will allow it to better resolve complex
-   dependency graphs in ecosystems like Python, and it also gets us very close to
-   modeling compilers as proper dependencies.
-
-   This change required a major overhaul of the concretizer, as well as a number of
-   performance optimizations. See #38447, #39621.
-
-4. **Cherry-picking virtual dependencies**
-
-   You can now select only a subset of virtual dependencies from a spec that may provide
-   more. For example, if you want `mpich` to be your `mpi` provider, you can be explicit
-   by writing:
-
-   ```
-   hdf5 ^[virtuals=mpi] mpich
-   ```
-
-   Or, if you want to use, e.g., `intel-parallel-studio` for `blas` along with an external
-   `lapack` like `openblas`, you could write:
-
-   ```
-   strumpack ^[virtuals=mpi] intel-parallel-studio+mkl ^[virtuals=lapack] openblas
-   ```
-
-   The `virtuals=mpi` is an edge attribute, and dependency edges in Spack graphs now
-   track which virtuals they satisfied. More details in #17229 and #35322.
-
-   Note for packaging: in Spack 0.21 `spec.satisfies("^virtual")` is true if and only if
-   the package specifies `depends_on("virtual")`. This is different from Spack 0.20,
-   where depending on a provider implied depending on the virtual provided. See #41002
-   for an example where `^mkl` was being used to test for several `mkl` providers in a
-   package that did not depend on `mkl`.
-
-5. **License directive**
-
-   Spack packages can now have license metadata, with the new `license()` directive:
-
-   ```python
-       license("Apache-2.0")
-   ```
-
-   Licenses use [SPDX identifiers](https://spdx.org/licenses), and you can use SPDX
-   expressions to combine them:
-
-   ```python
-       license("Apache-2.0 OR MIT")
-   ```
-
-   Like other directives in Spack, it's conditional, so you can handle complex cases like
-   Spack itself:
-
-   ```python
-      license("LGPL-2.1", when="@:0.11")
-      license("Apache-2.0 OR MIT", when="@0.12:")
-   ```
-
-   More details in #39346, #40598.
-
-6. **`spack deconcretize` command**
-
-   We are getting close to having a `spack update` command for environments, but we're
-   not quite there yet. This is the next best thing. `spack deconcretize` gives you
-   control over what you want to update in an already concrete environment. If you have
-   an environment built with, say, `meson`, and you want to update your `meson` version,
-   you can run:
-
-   ```console
-   spack deconcretize meson
-   ```
-
-   and have everything that depends on `meson` rebuilt the next time you run `spack
-   concretize`. In a future Spack version, we'll handle all of this in a single command,
-   but for now you can use this to drop bits of your lockfile and resolve your
-   dependencies again. More in #38803.
-
-7. **UI Improvements**
-
-   The venerable `spack info` command was looking shabby compared to the rest of Spack's
-   UI, so we reworked it to have a bit more flair. `spack info` now makes much better
-   use of terminal space and shows variants, their values, and their descriptions much
-   more clearly. Conditional variants are grouped separately so you can more easily
-   understand how packages are structured. More in #40998.
-
-   `spack checksum` now allows you to filter versions from your editor, or by version
-   range. It also notifies you about potential download URL changes. See #40403.
-
-8. **Environments can include definitions**
-
-   Spack did not previously support using `include:` with The
-   [definitions](https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/environments.html#spec-list-references)
-   section of an environment, but now it does. You can use this to curate lists of specs
-   and more easily reuse them across environments. See #33960.
-
-9. **Aliases**
-
-   You can now add aliases to Spack commands in `config.yaml`, e.g. this might enshrine
-   your favorite args to `spack find` as `spack f`:
-
-   ```yaml
-   config:
-     aliases:
-       f: find -lv
-   ```
-
-   See #17229.
-
-10. **Improved autoloading of modules**
-
-    Spack 0.20 was the first release to enable autoloading of direct dependencies in
-    module files.
-
-    The downside of this was that `module avail` and `module load` tab completion would
-    show users too many modules to choose from, and many users disabled generating
-    modules for dependencies through `exclude_implicits: true`. Further, it was
-    necessary to keep hashes in module names to avoid file name clashes.
-
-    In this release, you can start using `hide_implicits: true` instead, which exposes
-    only explicitly installed packages to the user, while still autoloading
-    dependencies. On top of that, you can safely use `hash_length: 0`, as this config
-    now only applies to the modules exposed to the user -- you don't have to worry about
-    file name clashes for hidden dependencies.
-
-   Note: for `tcl` this feature requires Modules 4.7 or higher
-
-11. **Updated container labeling**
-
-    Nightly Docker images from the `develop` branch will now be tagged as `:develop` and
-    `:nightly`. The `:latest` tag is no longer associated with `:develop`, but with the
-    latest stable release. Releases will be tagged with `:{major}`, `:{major}.{minor}`
-    and `:{major}.{minor}.{patch}`. `ubuntu:18.04` has also been removed from the list of
-    generated Docker images, as it is no longer supported. See #40593.
-
-## Other new commands and directives
-
-* `spack env activate` without arguments now loads a `default` environment that you do
-  not have to create (#40756).
-* `spack find -H` / `--hashes`: a new shortcut for piping `spack find` output to
-  other commands (#38663)
-* Add `spack checksum --verify`, fix `--add` (#38458)
-* New `default_args` context manager factors out common args for directives (#39964)
-* `spack compiler find --[no]-mixed-toolchain` lets you easily mix `clang` and
-  `gfortran` on Linux (#40902)
-
-## Performance improvements
-
-* `spack external find` execution is now much faster (#39843)
-* `spack location -i` now much faster on success (#40898)
-* Drop redundant rpaths post install (#38976)
-* ASP-based solver: avoid cycles in clingo using hidden directive (#40720)
-* Fix multiple quadratic complexity issues in environments (#38771)
-
-## Other new features of note
-
-* archspec: update to v0.2.2, support for Sapphire Rapids, Power10, Neoverse V2 (#40917)
-* Propagate variants across nodes that don't have that variant (#38512)
-* Implement fish completion (#29549)
-* Can now distinguish between source/binary mirror; don't ping mirror.spack.io as much (#34523)
-* Improve status reporting on install (add [n/total] display) (#37903)
-
-## Windows
-
-This release has the best Windows support of any Spack release yet, with numerous
-improvements and much larger swaths of tests passing:
-
-* MSVC and SDK improvements (#37711, #37930, #38500, #39823, #39180)
-* Windows external finding: update default paths; treat .bat as executable on Windows (#39850)
-* Windows decompression: fix removal of intermediate file (#38958)
-* Windows: executable/path handling (#37762)
-* Windows build systems: use ninja and enable tests (#33589)
-* Windows testing (#36970, #36972, #36973, #36840, #36977, #36792, #36834, #34696, #36971)
-* Windows PowerShell support (#39118, #37951)
-* Windows symlinking and libraries (#39933, #38599, #34701, #38578, #34701)
-
-## Notable refactors
-* User-specified flags take precedence over others in Spack compiler wrappers (#37376)
-* Improve setup of build, run, and test environments (#35737, #40916)
-* `make` is no longer a required system dependency of Spack (#40380)
-* Support Python 3.12 (#40404, #40155, #40153)
-* docs: Replace package list with packages.spack.io (#40251)
-* Drop Python 2 constructs in Spack (#38720, #38718, #38703)
-
-## Binary cache and stack updates
-* e4s arm stack: duplicate and target neoverse v1 (#40369)
-* Add macOS ML CI stacks (#36586)
-* E4S Cray CI Stack (#37837)
-* e4s cray: expand spec list (#38947)
-* e4s cray sles ci: expand spec list (#39081)
-
-## Removals, deprecations, and syntax changes
-* ASP: targets, compilers and providers soft-preferences are only global (#31261)
-* Parser: fix ambiguity with whitespace in version ranges (#40344)
-* Module file generation is disabled by default; you'll need to enable it to use it (#37258)
-* Remove deprecated "extra_instructions" option for containers (#40365)
-* Stand-alone test feature deprecation postponed to v0.22 (#40600)
-* buildcache push: make `--allow-root` the default and deprecate the option (#38878)
-
-## Notable Bugfixes
-* Bugfix: propagation of multivalued variants (#39833)
-* Allow `/` in git versions (#39398)
-* Fetch & patch: actually acquire stage lock, and many more issues (#38903)
-* Environment/depfile: better escaping of targets with Git versions (#37560)
-* Prevent "spack external find" to error out on wrong permissions (#38755)
-* lmod: allow core compiler to be specified with a version range (#37789)
-
-## Spack community stats
-
-* 7,469 total packages, 303 new since `v0.20.0`
-    * 150 new Python packages
-    * 34 new R packages
-* 353 people contributed to this release
-    * 336 committers to packages
-    * 65 committers to core
-
-
 # v0.20.3 (2023-10-31)
 
 ## Bugfixes

CITATION.cff

@@ -31,17 +31,13 @@ type: software
 message: "If you are referencing Spack in a publication, please cite the paper below."
 title: "The Spack Package Manager: Bringing Order to HPC Software Chaos"
 abstract: >-
-  Large HPC centers spend considerable time supporting software for thousands of users, but the
-  complexity of HPC software is quickly outpacing the capabilities of existing software management
-  tools. Scientific applications require specific versions of compilers, MPI, and other dependency
-  libraries, so using a single, standard software stack is infeasible. However, managing many
-  configurations is difficult because the configuration space is combinatorial in size. We
-  introduce Spack, a tool used at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to manage this complexity.
-  Spack provides a novel, re- cursive specification syntax to invoke parametric builds of packages
-  and dependencies. It allows any number of builds to coexist on the same system, and it ensures
-  that installed packages can find their dependencies, regardless of the environment. We show
-  through real-world use cases that Spack supports diverse and demanding applications, bringing
-  order to HPC software chaos.
+  Large HPC centers spend considerable time supporting software for thousands of users, but the complexity of HPC software is quickly outpacing the capabilities of existing software management tools.
+  Scientific applications require specific versions of compilers, MPI, and other dependency libraries, so using a single, standard software stack is infeasible.
+  However, managing many configurations is difficult because the configuration space is combinatorial in size.
+  We introduce Spack, a tool used at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to manage this complexity.
+  Spack provides a novel, re- cursive specification syntax to invoke parametric builds of packages and dependencies.
+  It allows any number of builds to coexist on the same system, and it ensures that installed packages can find their dependencies, regardless of the environment.
+  We show through real-world use cases that Spack supports diverse and demanding applications, bringing order to HPC software chaos.
 preferred-citation:
   title: "The Spack Package Manager: Bringing Order to HPC Software Chaos"
   type: conference-paper
@@ -75,7 +71,7 @@ preferred-citation:
       type: doi
       value: 10.1145/2807591.2807623
     - description: "The DOE Document Release Number of the work"
-      type: other
+      type: other 
       value: "LLNL-CONF-669890"
 authors:
   - family-names: "Gamblin"

LICENSE-MIT

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2013-2024 LLNS, LLC and other Spack Project Developers.
+Copyright (c) 2013-2023 LLNS, LLC and other Spack Project Developers.
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

README.md

@@ -1,34 +1,13 @@
-<div align="left">
+# <img src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/spack/spack/develop/share/spack/logo/spack-logo.svg" width="64" valign="middle" alt="Spack"/> Spack
 
-<h2>
-<picture>
-  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://cdn.rawgit.com/spack/spack/develop/share/spack/logo/spack-logo-white-text.svg" width="250">
-  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://cdn.rawgit.com/spack/spack/develop/share/spack/logo/spack-logo-text.svg" width="250">
-  <img alt="Spack" src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/spack/spack/develop/share/spack/logo/spack-logo-text.svg" width="250">
-</picture>
-
-<br>
-<br clear="all">
-
-<a href="https://github.com/spack/spack/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img src="https://github.com/spack/spack/workflows/ci/badge.svg" alt="CI Status"></a>
-<a href="https://github.com/spack/spack/actions/workflows/bootstrapping.yml"><img src="https://github.com/spack/spack/actions/workflows/bootstrap.yml/badge.svg" alt="Bootstrap Status"></a>
-<a href="https://github.com/spack/spack/actions/workflows/build-containers.yml"><img src="https://github.com/spack/spack/actions/workflows/build-containers.yml/badge.svg" alt="Containers Status"></a>
-<a href="https://spack.readthedocs.io"><img src="https://readthedocs.org/projects/spack/badge/?version=latest" alt="Documentation Status"></a>
-<a href="https://codecov.io/gh/spack/spack"><img src="https://codecov.io/gh/spack/spack/branch/develop/graph/badge.svg" alt="Code coverage"/></a>
-<a href="https://slack.spack.io"><img src="https://slack.spack.io/badge.svg" alt="Slack"/></a>
-<a href="https://matrix.to/#/#spack-space:matrix.org"><img src="https://img.shields.io/matrix/spack-space%3Amatrix.org?label=matrix" alt="Matrix"/></a>
-
-</h2>
-
-**[Getting Started] &nbsp; • &nbsp; [Config] &nbsp; • &nbsp; [Community] &nbsp; • &nbsp; [Contributing] &nbsp; • &nbsp; [Packaging Guide]**
-
-[Getting Started]: https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html
-[Config]: https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html
-[Community]: #community
-[Contributing]: https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contribution_guide.html
-[Packaging Guide]: https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/packaging_guide.html
-
-</div>
+[![Unit Tests](https://github.com/spack/spack/workflows/linux%20tests/badge.svg)](https://github.com/spack/spack/actions)
+[![Bootstrapping](https://github.com/spack/spack/actions/workflows/bootstrap.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/spack/spack/actions/workflows/bootstrap.yml)
+[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/spack/spack/branch/develop/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/spack/spack)
+[![Containers](https://github.com/spack/spack/actions/workflows/build-containers.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/spack/spack/actions/workflows/build-containers.yml)
+[![Read the Docs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/spack/badge/?version=latest)](https://spack.readthedocs.io)
+[![Code style: black](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-000000.svg)](https://github.com/psf/black)
+[![Slack](https://slack.spack.io/badge.svg)](https://slack.spack.io)
+[![Matrix](https://img.shields.io/matrix/spack-space%3Amatrix.org?label=Matrix)](https://matrix.to/#/#spack-space:matrix.org)
 
 Spack is a multi-platform package manager that builds and installs
 multiple versions and configurations of software. It works on Linux,
@@ -87,11 +66,10 @@ Resources:
 * **Matrix space**: [#spack-space:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#spack-space:matrix.org):
   [bridged](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-slack#matrix-appservice-slack) to Slack.
 * [**Github Discussions**](https://github.com/spack/spack/discussions):
-  for Q&A and discussions. Note the pinned discussions for announcements.
+  not just for discussions, but also Q&A.
+* **Mailing list**: [groups.google.com/d/forum/spack](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/spack)
 * **Twitter**: [@spackpm](https://twitter.com/spackpm). Be sure to
   `@mention` us!
-* **Mailing list**: [groups.google.com/d/forum/spack](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/spack):
-  only for announcements. Please use other venues for discussions.
 
 Contributing
 ------------------------

bin/haspywin.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

bin/sbang

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 #
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # sbang project developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

bin/spack

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # -*- python -*-
 #
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

bin/spack-python

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 #
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

bin/spack.bat

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-:: Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+:: Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 :: Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 ::
 :: SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

bin/spack.ps1

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#  Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+#  Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 #  Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
 #  SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

bin/spack_pwsh.ps1

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

etc/spack/defaults/darwin/packages.yaml

@@ -50,4 +50,4 @@ packages:
     # Apple bundles libuuid in libsystem_c version 1353.100.2,
     # although the version number used here isn't critical
     - spec: apple-libuuid@1353.100.2
-      prefix: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk
+      prefix: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk

etc/spack/defaults/modules.yaml

@@ -46,10 +46,12 @@ modules:
     tcl:
       all:
         autoload: direct
+      hide_implicits: true
 
     # Default configurations if lmod is enabled
     lmod:
       all:
         autoload: direct
+      hide_implicits: true
       hierarchy:
         - mpi

lib/spack/docs/_pygments/style.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -1130,10 +1130,6 @@ A version specifier can also be a list of ranges and specific versions,
 separated by commas.  For example, ``@1.0:1.5,=1.7.1`` matches any version
 in the range ``1.0:1.5`` and the specific version ``1.7.1``.
 
-^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Git versions
-^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
 For packages with a ``git`` attribute, ``git`` references
 may be specified instead of a numerical version i.e. branches, tags
 and commits. Spack will stage and build based off the ``git``

lib/spack/docs/binary_caches.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -153,43 +153,7 @@ keyring, and trusting all downloaded keys.
 List of popular build caches
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-* `Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) <https://e4s-project.github.io/>`_: `build cache <https://oaciss.uoregon.edu/e4s/inventory.html>`_'
-
--------------------
-Build cache signing
--------------------
-
-By default, Spack will add a cryptographic signature to each package pushed to
-a build cache, and verifies the signature when installing from a build cache.
-
-Keys for signing can be managed with the :ref:`spack gpg <cmd-spack-gpg>` command,
-as well as ``spack buildcache keys`` as mentioned above.
-
-You can disable signing when pushing with ``spack buildcache push --unsigned``,
-and disable verification when installing from any build cache with
-``spack install --no-check-signature``.
-
-Alternatively, signing and verification can be enabled or disabled on a per build cache
-basis:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-    $ spack mirror add --signed <name> <url>  # enable signing and verification
-    $ spack mirror add --unsigned <name> <url>  # disable signing and verification
-
-    $ spack mirror set --signed <name>  # enable signing and verification for an existing mirror
-    $ spack mirror set --unsigned <name>  # disable signing and verification for an existing mirror
-
-Or you can directly edit the ``mirrors.yaml`` configuration file:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-    mirrors:
-      <name>:
-        url: <url>
-        signed: false # disable signing and verification
-
-See also :ref:`mirrors`.
+* `Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) <https://e4s-project.github.io/>`_: `build cache <https://oaciss.uoregon.edu/e4s/inventory.html>`_
 
 ----------
 Relocation
@@ -218,7 +182,6 @@ section of the configuration:
        padded_length: 128
 
 
-.. _binary_caches_oci:
 
 -----------------------------------------
 OCI / Docker V2 registries as build cache
@@ -287,13 +250,87 @@ To significantly speed up Spack in GitHub Actions, binaries can be cached in
 GitHub Packages. This service is an OCI registry that can be linked to a GitHub
 repository.
 
+A typical workflow is to include a ``spack.yaml`` environment in your repository
+that specifies the packages to install, the target architecture, and the build
+cache to use under ``mirrors``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+    spack:
+      specs:
+      - python@3.11
+      config:
+        install_tree:
+          root: /opt/spack
+          padded_length: 128
+      packages:
+        all:
+          require: target=x86_64_v2
+      mirrors:
+        local-buildcache: oci://ghcr.io/<organization>/<repository>
+
+A GitHub action can then be used to install the packages and push them to the
+build cache:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+    name: Install Spack packages
+
+    on: push
+
+    env:
+      SPACK_COLOR: always
+
+    jobs:
+      example:
+        runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+        permissions:
+          packages: write
+        steps:
+        - name: Checkout
+          uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+        - name: Checkout Spack
+          uses: actions/checkout@v3
+          with:
+            repository: spack/spack
+            path: spack
+
+        - name: Setup Spack
+          run: echo "$PWD/spack/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
+
+        - name: Concretize
+          run: spack -e . concretize
+
+        - name: Install
+          run: spack -e . install --no-check-signature
+
+        - name: Run tests
+            run: ./my_view/bin/python3 -c 'print("hello world")'
+
+        - name: Push to buildcache
+          run: |
+            spack -e . mirror set --oci-username ${{ github.actor }} --oci-password "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" local-buildcache
+            spack -e . buildcache push --base-image ubuntu:22.04 --unsigned --update-index local-buildcache
+          if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
+
+The first time this action runs, it will build the packages from source and
+push them to the build cache. Subsequent runs will pull the binaries from the
+build cache. The concretizer will ensure that prebuilt binaries are favored
+over source builds.
+
+The build cache entries appear in the GitHub Packages section of your repository,
+and contain instructions for pulling and running them with ``docker`` or ``podman``.
+
+
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Using Spack's public build cache for GitHub Actions
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
 Spack offers a public build cache for GitHub Actions with a set of common packages,
 which lets you get started quickly. See the following resources for more information:
 
-* `spack/setup-spack <https://github.com/spack/setup-spack>`_ for setting up Spack in GitHub
-  Actions
-* `spack/github-actions-buildcache <https://github.com/spack/github-actions-buildcache>`_ for
-  more details on the public build cache
+* `spack/github-actions-buildcache <https://github.com/spack/github-actions-buildcache>`_
 
 .. _cmd-spack-buildcache:
 

lib/spack/docs/bootstrapping.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ You can check what is installed in the bootstrapping store at any time using:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
-   % spack -b find
+   % spack find -b
    ==> Showing internal bootstrap store at "/Users/spack/.spack/bootstrap/store"
    ==> 11 installed packages
    -- darwin-catalina-x86_64 / apple-clang@12.0.0 ------------------
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ In case it is needed you can remove all the software in the current bootstrappin
    % spack clean -b
    ==> Removing bootstrapped software and configuration in "/Users/spack/.spack/bootstrap"
 
-   % spack -b find
+   % spack find -b
    ==> Showing internal bootstrap store at "/Users/spack/.spack/bootstrap/store"
    ==> 0 installed packages
 
@@ -175,4 +175,4 @@ bootstrapping.
 
 This command needs to be run on a machine with internet access and the resulting folder
 has to be moved over to the air-gapped system. Once the local sources are added using the
-commands suggested at the prompt, they can be used to bootstrap Spack.
+commands suggested at the prompt, they can be used to bootstrap Spack.

lib/spack/docs/build_settings.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -37,11 +37,7 @@ to enable reuse for a single installation, and you can use:
    spack install --fresh <spec>
 
 to do a fresh install if ``reuse`` is enabled by default.
-``reuse: dependencies`` is the default.
-
-.. seealso::
-
-   FAQ: :ref:`Why does Spack pick particular versions and variants? <faq-concretizer-precedence>`
+``reuse: true`` is the default.
 
 ------------------------------------------
 Selection of the target microarchitectures
@@ -103,3 +99,547 @@ while `py-numpy` still needs an older version:
 
 Up to Spack v0.20 ``duplicates:strategy:none`` was the default (and only) behavior. From Spack v0.21 the
 default behavior is ``duplicates:strategy:minimal``.
+
+.. _build-settings:
+
+================================
+Package Settings (packages.yaml)
+================================
+
+Spack allows you to customize how your software is built through the
+``packages.yaml`` file.  Using it, you can make Spack prefer particular
+implementations of virtual dependencies (e.g., MPI or BLAS/LAPACK),
+or you can make it prefer to build with particular compilers.  You can
+also tell Spack to use *external* software installations already
+present on your system.
+
+At a high level, the ``packages.yaml`` file is structured like this:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     package1:
+       # settings for package1
+     package2:
+       # settings for package2
+     # ...
+     all:
+       # settings that apply to all packages.
+
+So you can either set build preferences specifically for *one* package,
+or you can specify that certain settings should apply to *all* packages.
+The types of settings you can customize are described in detail below.
+
+Spack's build defaults are in the default
+``etc/spack/defaults/packages.yaml`` file.  You can override them in
+``~/.spack/packages.yaml`` or ``etc/spack/packages.yaml``. For more
+details on how this works, see :ref:`configuration-scopes`.
+
+.. _sec-external-packages:
+
+-----------------
+External Packages
+-----------------
+
+Spack can be configured to use externally-installed
+packages rather than building its own packages. This may be desirable
+if machines ship with system packages, such as a customized MPI
+that should be used instead of Spack building its own MPI.
+
+External packages are configured through the ``packages.yaml`` file.
+Here's an example of an external configuration:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     openmpi:
+       externals:
+       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
+         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3
+       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64+debug"
+         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3-debug
+       - spec: "openmpi@1.6.5%intel@10.1 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
+         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.6.5-intel
+
+This example lists three installations of OpenMPI, one built with GCC,
+one built with GCC and debug information, and another built with Intel.
+If Spack is asked to build a package that uses one of these MPIs as a
+dependency, it will use the pre-installed OpenMPI in
+the given directory. Note that the specified path is the top-level
+install prefix, not the ``bin`` subdirectory.
+
+``packages.yaml`` can also be used to specify modules to load instead
+of the installation prefixes.  The following example says that module
+``CMake/3.7.2`` provides cmake version 3.7.2.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   cmake:
+     externals:
+     - spec: cmake@3.7.2
+       modules:
+       - CMake/3.7.2
+
+Each ``packages.yaml`` begins with a ``packages:`` attribute, followed
+by a list of package names.  To specify externals, add an ``externals:``
+attribute under the package name, which lists externals.
+Each external should specify a ``spec:`` string that should be as
+well-defined as reasonably possible.  If a
+package lacks a spec component, such as missing a compiler or
+package version, then Spack will guess the missing component based
+on its most-favored packages, and it may guess incorrectly.
+
+Each package version and compiler listed in an external should
+have entries in Spack's packages and compiler configuration, even
+though the package and compiler may not ever be built.
+
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Prevent packages from being built from sources
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Adding an external spec in ``packages.yaml`` allows Spack to use an external location,
+but it does not prevent Spack from building packages from sources. In the above example,
+Spack might choose for many valid reasons to start building and linking with the
+latest version of OpenMPI rather than continue using the pre-installed OpenMPI versions.
+
+To prevent this, the ``packages.yaml`` configuration also allows packages
+to be flagged as non-buildable.  The previous example could be modified to
+be:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     openmpi:
+       externals:
+       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
+         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3
+       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64+debug"
+         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3-debug
+       - spec: "openmpi@1.6.5%intel@10.1 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
+         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.6.5-intel
+       buildable: False
+
+The addition of the ``buildable`` flag tells Spack that it should never build
+its own version of OpenMPI from sources, and it will instead always rely on a pre-built
+OpenMPI.
+
+.. note::
+
+   If ``concretizer:reuse`` is on (see :ref:`concretizer-options` for more information on that flag)
+   pre-built specs include specs already available from a local store, an upstream store, a registered
+   buildcache or specs marked as externals in ``packages.yaml``. If ``concretizer:reuse`` is off, only
+   external specs in ``packages.yaml`` are included in the list of pre-built specs.
+
+If an external module is specified as not buildable, then Spack will load the
+external module into the build environment which can be used for linking.
+
+The ``buildable`` does not need to be paired with external packages.
+It could also be used alone to forbid packages that may be
+buggy or otherwise undesirable.
+
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Non-buildable virtual packages
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Virtual packages in Spack can also be specified as not buildable, and
+external implementations can be provided. In the example above,
+OpenMPI is configured as not buildable, but Spack will often prefer
+other MPI implementations over the externally available OpenMPI. Spack
+can be configured with every MPI provider not buildable individually,
+but more conveniently:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     mpi:
+       buildable: False
+     openmpi:
+       externals:
+       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
+         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3
+       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64+debug"
+         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3-debug
+       - spec: "openmpi@1.6.5%intel@10.1 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
+         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.6.5-intel
+
+Spack can then use any of the listed external implementations of MPI
+to satisfy a dependency, and will choose depending on the compiler and
+architecture.
+
+In cases where the concretizer is configured to reuse specs, and other ``mpi`` providers
+(available via stores or buildcaches) are not wanted, Spack can be configured to require
+specs matching only the available externals:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     mpi:
+       buildable: False
+       require:
+       - one_of: [
+           "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64",
+           "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64+debug",
+           "openmpi@1.6.5%intel@10.1 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
+         ]
+     openmpi:
+       externals:
+       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
+         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3
+       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64+debug"
+         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3-debug
+       - spec: "openmpi@1.6.5%intel@10.1 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
+         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.6.5-intel
+
+This configuration prevents any spec using MPI and originating from stores or buildcaches to be reused,
+unless it matches the requirements under ``packages:mpi:require``. For more information on requirements see
+:ref:`package-requirements`.
+
+.. _cmd-spack-external-find:
+
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Automatically Find External Packages
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+You can run the :ref:`spack external find <spack-external-find>` command
+to search for system-provided packages and add them to ``packages.yaml``.
+After running this command your ``packages.yaml`` may include new entries:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     cmake:
+       externals:
+       - spec: cmake@3.17.2
+         prefix: /usr
+
+Generally this is useful for detecting a small set of commonly-used packages;
+for now this is generally limited to finding build-only dependencies.
+Specific limitations include:
+
+* Packages are not discoverable by default: For a package to be
+  discoverable with ``spack external find``, it needs to add special
+  logic. See :ref:`here <make-package-findable>` for more details.
+* The logic does not search through module files, it can only detect
+  packages with executables defined in ``PATH``; you can help Spack locate
+  externals which use module files by loading any associated modules for
+  packages that you want Spack to know about before running
+  ``spack external find``.
+* Spack does not overwrite existing entries in the package configuration:
+  If there is an external defined for a spec at any configuration scope,
+  then Spack will not add a new external entry (``spack config blame packages``
+  can help locate all external entries).
+
+.. _package-requirements:
+
+--------------------
+Package Requirements
+--------------------
+
+Spack can be configured to always use certain compilers, package
+versions, and variants during concretization through package
+requirements.
+
+Package requirements are useful when you find yourself repeatedly
+specifying the same constraints on the command line, and wish that
+Spack respects these constraints whether you mention them explicitly
+or not. Another use case is specifying constraints that should apply
+to all root specs in an environment, without having to repeat the
+constraint everywhere.
+
+Apart from that, requirements config is more flexible than constraints
+on the command line, because it can specify constraints on packages
+*when they occur* as a dependency. In contrast, on the command line it
+is not possible to specify constraints on dependencies while also keeping
+those dependencies optional.
+
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Requirements syntax
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The package requirements configuration is specified in ``packages.yaml``,
+keyed by package name and expressed using the Spec syntax. In the simplest
+case you can specify attributes that you always want the package to have
+by providing a single spec string to ``require``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     libfabric:
+       require: "@1.13.2"
+
+In the above example, ``libfabric`` will always build with version 1.13.2. If you
+need to compose multiple configuration scopes ``require`` accepts a list of
+strings:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     libfabric:
+       require:
+       - "@1.13.2"
+       - "%gcc"
+
+In this case ``libfabric`` will always build with version 1.13.2 **and** using GCC
+as a compiler.
+
+For more complex use cases, require accepts also a list of objects. These objects
+must have either a ``any_of`` or a ``one_of`` field, containing a list of spec strings,
+and they can optionally have a ``when`` and a ``message`` attribute:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     openmpi:
+       require:
+       - any_of: ["@4.1.5", "%gcc"]
+         message: "in this example only 4.1.5 can build with other compilers"
+
+``any_of`` is a list of specs. One of those specs must be satisfied
+and it is also allowed for the concretized spec to match more than one.
+In the above example, that means you could build ``openmpi@4.1.5%gcc``,
+``openmpi@4.1.5%clang`` or ``openmpi@3.9%gcc``, but
+not ``openmpi@3.9%clang``.
+
+If a custom message is provided, and the requirement is not satisfiable,
+Spack will print the custom error message:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   $ spack spec openmpi@3.9%clang
+   ==> Error: in this example only 4.1.5 can build with other compilers
+
+We could express a similar requirement using the ``when`` attribute:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     openmpi:
+       require:
+       - any_of: ["%gcc"]
+         when: "@:4.1.4"
+         message: "in this example only 4.1.5 can build with other compilers"
+
+In the example above, if the version turns out to be 4.1.4 or less, we require the compiler to be GCC.
+For readability, Spack also allows a ``spec`` key accepting a string when there is only a single
+constraint:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     openmpi:
+       require:
+       - spec: "%gcc"
+         when: "@:4.1.4"
+         message: "in this example only 4.1.5 can build with other compilers"
+
+This code snippet and the one before it are semantically equivalent.
+
+Finally, instead of ``any_of`` you can use ``one_of`` which also takes a list of specs. The final
+concretized spec must match one and only one of them:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     mpich:
+       require:
+       - one_of: ["+cuda", "+rocm"]
+
+In the example above, that means you could build ``mpich+cuda`` or ``mpich+rocm`` but not ``mpich+cuda+rocm``.
+
+.. note::
+
+   For ``any_of`` and ``one_of``, the order of specs indicates a
+   preference: items that appear earlier in the list are preferred
+   (note that these preferences can be ignored in favor of others).
+
+.. note::
+
+   When using a conditional requirement, Spack is allowed to actively avoid the triggering
+   condition (the ``when=...`` spec) if that leads to a concrete spec with better scores in
+   the optimization criteria. To check the current optimization criteria and their
+   priorities you can run ``spack solve zlib``.
+
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Setting default requirements
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+You can also set default requirements for all packages under ``all``
+like this:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     all:
+       require: '%clang'
+
+which means every spec will be required to use ``clang`` as a compiler.
+
+Note that in this case ``all`` represents a *default set of requirements* -
+if there are specific package requirements, then the default requirements
+under ``all`` are disregarded. For example, with a configuration like this:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     all:
+       require: '%clang'
+     cmake:
+       require: '%gcc'
+
+Spack requires ``cmake`` to use ``gcc`` and all other nodes (including ``cmake``
+dependencies) to use ``clang``.
+
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Setting requirements on virtual specs
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+A requirement on a virtual spec applies whenever that virtual is present in the DAG.
+This can be useful for fixing which virtual provider you want to use:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     mpi:
+       require: 'mvapich2 %gcc'
+
+With the configuration above the only allowed ``mpi`` provider is ``mvapich2 %gcc``.
+
+Requirements on the virtual spec and on the specific provider are both applied, if
+present. For instance with a configuration like:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     mpi:
+       require: 'mvapich2 %gcc'
+     mvapich2:
+       require: '~cuda'
+
+you will use ``mvapich2~cuda %gcc`` as an ``mpi`` provider.
+
+.. _package-preferences:
+
+-------------------
+Package Preferences
+-------------------
+
+In some cases package requirements can be too strong, and package
+preferences are the better option. Package preferences do not impose
+constraints on packages for particular versions or variants values,
+they rather only set defaults. The concretizer is free to change
+them if it must, due to other constraints, and also prefers reusing
+installed packages over building new ones that are a better match for
+preferences.
+
+Most package preferences (``compilers``, ``target`` and ``providers``)
+can only be set globally under the ``all`` section of ``packages.yaml``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     all:
+       compiler: [gcc@12.2.0, clang@12:, oneapi@2023:]
+       target: [x86_64_v3]
+       providers:
+         mpi: [mvapich2, mpich, openmpi]
+
+These preferences override Spack's default and effectively reorder priorities
+when looking for the best compiler, target or virtual package provider. Each
+preference takes an ordered list of spec constraints, with earlier entries in
+the list being preferred over later entries.
+
+In the example above all packages prefer to be compiled with ``gcc@12.2.0``,
+to target the ``x86_64_v3`` microarchitecture and to use ``mvapich2`` if they
+depend on ``mpi``.
+
+The ``variants`` and ``version`` preferences can be set under
+package specific sections of the ``packages.yaml`` file:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   packages:
+     opencv:
+       variants: +debug
+     gperftools:
+       version: [2.2, 2.4, 2.3]
+
+In this case, the preference for ``opencv`` is to build with debug options, while
+``gperftools`` prefers version 2.2 over 2.4.
+
+Any preference can be overwritten on the command line if explicitly requested.
+
+Preferences cannot overcome explicit constraints, as they only set a preferred
+ordering among homogeneous attribute values. Going back to the example, if
+``gperftools@2.3:`` was requested, then Spack will install version 2.4
+since the most preferred version 2.2 is prohibited by the version constraint.
+
+.. _package_permissions:
+
+-------------------
+Package Permissions
+-------------------
+
+Spack can be configured to assign permissions to the files installed
+by a package.
+
+In the ``packages.yaml`` file under ``permissions``, the attributes
+``read``, ``write``, and ``group`` control the package
+permissions. These attributes can be set per-package, or for all
+packages under ``all``. If permissions are set under ``all`` and for a
+specific package, the package-specific settings take precedence.
+
+The ``read`` and ``write`` attributes take one of ``user``, ``group``,
+and ``world``.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+  packages:
+    all:
+      permissions:
+        write: group
+        group: spack
+    my_app:
+      permissions:
+        read: group
+        group: my_team
+
+The permissions settings describe the broadest level of access to
+installations of the specified packages. The execute permissions of
+the file are set to the same level as read permissions for those files
+that are executable. The default setting for ``read`` is ``world``,
+and for ``write`` is ``user``. In the example above, installations of
+``my_app`` will be installed with user and group permissions but no
+world permissions, and owned by the group ``my_team``. All other
+packages will be installed with user and group write privileges, and
+world read privileges. Those packages will be owned by the group
+``spack``.
+
+The ``group`` attribute assigns a Unix-style group to a package. All
+files installed by the package will be owned by the assigned group,
+and the sticky group bit will be set on the install prefix and all
+directories inside the install prefix. This will ensure that even
+manually placed files within the install prefix are owned by the
+assigned group. If no group is assigned, Spack will allow the OS
+default behavior to go as expected.
+
+----------------------------
+Assigning Package Attributes
+----------------------------
+
+You can assign class-level attributes in the configuration:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+  packages:
+    mpileaks:
+      # Override existing attributes
+      url: http://www.somewhereelse.com/mpileaks-1.0.tar.gz
+      # ... or add new ones
+      x: 1
+
+Attributes set this way will be accessible to any method executed
+in the package.py file (e.g. the ``install()`` method). Values for these
+attributes may be any value parseable by yaml.
+
+These can only be applied to specific packages, not "all" or
+virtual packages.

lib/spack/docs/build_systems.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/autotoolspackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/bundlepackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/cachedcmakepackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/cmakepackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class already contains:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("cmake", type="build")
+   depends_on('cmake', type='build')
 
 
 If you need to specify a particular version requirement, you can
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ override this in your package:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("cmake@2.8.12:", type="build")
+   depends_on('cmake@2.8.12:', type='build')
 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -137,10 +137,10 @@ and without the :meth:`~spack.build_systems.cmake.CMakeBuilder.define` and
 
    def cmake_args(self):
        args = [
-           "-DWHATEVER:STRING=somevalue",
-           self.define("ENABLE_BROKEN_FEATURE", False),
-           self.define_from_variant("DETECT_HDF5", "hdf5"),
-           self.define_from_variant("THREADS"), # True if +threads
+           '-DWHATEVER:STRING=somevalue',
+           self.define('ENABLE_BROKEN_FEATURE', False),
+           self.define_from_variant('DETECT_HDF5', 'hdf5'),
+           self.define_from_variant('THREADS'), # True if +threads
        ]
 
        return args
@@ -151,10 +151,10 @@ and CMake simply ignores the empty command line argument. For example the follow
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   variant("example", default=True, when="@2.0:")
+   variant('example', default=True, when='@2.0:')
 
    def cmake_args(self):
-      return [self.define_from_variant("EXAMPLE", "example")]
+      return [self.define_from_variant('EXAMPLE', 'example')]
 
 will generate ``'cmake' '-DEXAMPLE=ON' ...`` when `@2.0: +example` is met, but will
 result in ``'cmake' '' ...`` when the spec version is below ``2.0``.
@@ -193,9 +193,9 @@ a variant to control this:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   variant("build_type", default="RelWithDebInfo",
-           description="CMake build type",
-           values=("Debug", "Release", "RelWithDebInfo", "MinSizeRel"))
+   variant('build_type', default='RelWithDebInfo',
+           description='CMake build type',
+           values=('Debug', 'Release', 'RelWithDebInfo', 'MinSizeRel'))
 
 However, not every CMake package accepts all four of these options.
 Grep the ``CMakeLists.txt`` file to see if the default values are
@@ -205,9 +205,9 @@ package overrides the default variant with:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   variant("build_type", default="DebugRelease",
-           description="The build type to build",
-           values=("Debug", "Release", "DebugRelease"))
+   variant('build_type', default='DebugRelease',
+           description='The build type to build',
+           values=('Debug', 'Release', 'DebugRelease'))
 
 For more information on ``CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE``, see:
 https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.html
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ generator is Ninja. To switch to the Ninja generator, simply add:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   generator = "Ninja"
+   generator = 'Ninja'
 
 
 ``CMakePackage`` defaults to "Unix Makefiles". If you switch to the
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ Ninja generator, make sure to add:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("ninja", type="build")
+   depends_on('ninja', type='build')
 
 to the package as well. Aside from that, you shouldn't need to do
 anything else. Spack will automatically detect that you are using
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ like so:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   root_cmakelists_dir = "src"
+   root_cmakelists_dir = 'src'
 
 
 Note that this path is relative to the root of the extracted tarball,
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ different sub-directory, simply override ``build_directory`` like so:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   build_directory = "my-build"
+   build_directory = 'my-build'
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Build and install targets
@@ -324,8 +324,8 @@ library or build the documentation, you can add these like so:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   build_targets = ["all", "docs"]
-   install_targets = ["install", "docs"]
+   build_targets = ['all', 'docs']
+   install_targets = ['install', 'docs']
 
 ^^^^^^^
 Testing

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/cudapackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/custompackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/inteloneapipackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -53,24 +53,18 @@ Install the oneAPI compilers::
 
 Add the compilers to your ``compilers.yaml`` so spack can use them::
 
-  spack compiler add `spack location -i intel-oneapi-compilers`/compiler/latest/bin
+  spack compiler add `spack location -i intel-oneapi-compilers`/compiler/latest/linux/bin/intel64
+  spack compiler add `spack location -i intel-oneapi-compilers`/compiler/latest/linux/bin
 
 Verify that the compilers are available::
 
   spack compiler list
 
-Note that 2024 and later releases do not include ``icc``. Before 2024,
-the package layout was different::
-  
-  spack compiler add `spack location -i intel-oneapi-compilers`/compiler/latest/linux/bin/intel64
-  spack compiler add `spack location -i intel-oneapi-compilers`/compiler/latest/linux/bin
-
 The ``intel-oneapi-compilers`` package includes 2 families of
 compilers:
 
 * ``intel``: ``icc``, ``icpc``, ``ifort``. Intel's *classic*
-  compilers. 2024 and later releases contain ``ifort``, but not
-  ``icc`` and ``icpc``.
+  compilers.
 * ``oneapi``: ``icx``, ``icpx``, ``ifx``. Intel's new generation of
   compilers based on LLVM.
 
@@ -95,8 +89,8 @@ Install the oneAPI compilers::
 
 Add the compilers to your ``compilers.yaml`` so Spack can use them::
 
-  spack compiler add `spack location -i intel-oneapi-compilers`/compiler/latest/bin
-  spack compiler add `spack location -i intel-oneapi-compilers`/compiler/latest/bin
+  spack compiler add `spack location -i intel-oneapi-compilers`/compiler/latest/linux/bin/intel64
+  spack compiler add `spack location -i intel-oneapi-compilers`/compiler/latest/linux/bin
 
 Verify that the compilers are available::
 
@@ -152,7 +146,8 @@ Compilers
 To use the compilers, add some information about the installation to
 ``compilers.yaml``. For most users, it is sufficient to do::
 
-  spack compiler add /opt/intel/oneapi/compiler/latest/bin
+  spack compiler add /opt/intel/oneapi/compiler/latest/linux/bin/intel64
+  spack compiler add /opt/intel/oneapi/compiler/latest/linux/bin
 
 Adapt the paths above if you did not install the tools in the default
 location. After adding the compilers, using them is the same
@@ -161,12 +156,6 @@ Another option is to manually add the configuration to
 ``compilers.yaml`` as described in :ref:`Compiler configuration
 <compiler-config>`.
 
-Before 2024, the directory structure was different::
-  
-  spack compiler add /opt/intel/oneapi/compiler/latest/linux/bin/intel64
-  spack compiler add /opt/intel/oneapi/compiler/latest/linux/bin
-
-
 Libraries
 ---------
 

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/intelpackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ and optimizers do require a paid license.  In Spack, they are packaged as:
     TODO: Confirm and possible change(!) the scope of MPI components (runtime
     vs. devel) in current (and previous?) *cluster/professional/composer*
     editions, i.e., presence in downloads, possibly subject to license
-    coverage(!); see `discussion in PR #4300
+    coverage(!); see `disussion in PR #4300
     <https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/4300#issuecomment-305582898>`_.  [NB:
     An "mpi" subdirectory is not indicative of the full MPI SDK being present
     (i.e., ``mpicc``, ..., and header files).  The directory may just as well
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ See section
 :ref:`Configuration Scopes <configuration-scopes>`
 for an explanation about the different files
 and section
-:ref:`Build customization <packages-config>`
+:ref:`Build customization <build-settings>`
 for specifics and examples for ``packages.yaml`` files.
 
 .. If your system administrator did not provide modules for pre-installed Intel
@@ -934,9 +934,9 @@ a *virtual* ``mkl`` package is declared in Spack.
   .. code-block:: python
 
      # Examples for absolute and conditional dependencies:
-     depends_on("mkl")
-     depends_on("mkl", when="+mkl")
-     depends_on("mkl", when="fftw=mkl")
+     depends_on('mkl')
+     depends_on('mkl', when='+mkl')
+     depends_on('mkl', when='fftw=mkl')
 
   The ``MKLROOT`` environment variable (part of the documented API) will be set
   during all stages of client package installation, and is available to both
@@ -972,8 +972,8 @@ a *virtual* ``mkl`` package is declared in Spack.
       def configure_args(self):
           args = []
           ...
-          args.append("--with-blas=%s" % self.spec["blas"].libs.ld_flags)
-          args.append("--with-lapack=%s" % self.spec["lapack"].libs.ld_flags)
+          args.append('--with-blas=%s' % self.spec['blas'].libs.ld_flags)
+          args.append('--with-lapack=%s' % self.spec['lapack'].libs.ld_flags)
           ...
 
   .. tip::
@@ -989,13 +989,13 @@ a *virtual* ``mkl`` package is declared in Spack.
 
   .. code-block:: python
 
-    self.spec["blas"].headers.include_flags
+    self.spec['blas'].headers.include_flags
 
   and to generate linker options (``-L<dir> -llibname ...``), use the same as above,
 
   .. code-block:: python
 
-    self.spec["blas"].libs.ld_flags
+    self.spec['blas'].libs.ld_flags
 
   See
   :ref:`MakefilePackage <makefilepackage>`

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/luapackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ override the ``luarocks_args`` method like so:
 .. code-block:: python
 
     def luarocks_args(self):
-        return ["flag1", "flag2"]
+        return ['flag1', 'flag2']
 
 One common use of this is to override warnings or flags for newer compilers, as in:
 

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/makefilepackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -88,13 +88,13 @@ command-line. However, Makefiles that use ``?=`` for assignment honor
 environment variables. Since Spack already sets ``CC``, ``CXX``, ``F77``,
 and ``FC``, you won't need to worry about setting these variables. If
 there are any other variables you need to set, you can do this in the
-``setup_build_environment`` method:
+``edit`` method:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   def setup_build_environment(self, env):
-       env.set("PREFIX", prefix)
-       env.set("BLASLIB", spec["blas"].libs.ld_flags)
+   def edit(self, spec, prefix):
+       env["PREFIX"] = prefix
+       env["BLASLIB"] = spec["blas"].libs.ld_flags
 
 
 `cbench <https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/cbench/package.py>`_
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Edit Makefile
 Some Makefiles are just plain stubborn and will ignore command-line
 variables. The only way to ensure that these packages build correctly
 is to directly edit the Makefile. Spack provides a ``FileFilter`` class
-and a ``filter`` method to help with this. For example:
+and a ``filter_file`` method to help with this. For example:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/mavenpackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ class automatically adds the following dependencies:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("java", type=("build", "run"))
-   depends_on("maven", type="build")
+   depends_on('java', type=('build', 'run'))
+   depends_on('maven', type='build')
 
 
 In the ``pom.xml`` file, you may see sections like:
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ should add:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("java@7:", type="build")
-   depends_on("maven@3.5.4:", type="build")
+   depends_on('java@7:', type='build')
+   depends_on('maven@3.5.4:', type='build')
 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ the build phase. For example:
 
    def build_args(self):
        return [
-           "-Pdist,native",
-           "-Dtar",
-           "-Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true"
+           '-Pdist,native',
+           '-Dtar',
+           '-Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true'
        ]
 
 

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/mesonpackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ the ``MesonPackage`` base class already contains:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("meson", type="build")
-   depends_on("ninja", type="build")
+   depends_on('meson', type='build')
+   depends_on('ninja', type='build')
 
 
 If you need to specify a particular version requirement, you can
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ override this in your package:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("meson@0.43.0:", type="build")
-   depends_on("ninja", type="build")
+   depends_on('meson@0.43.0:', type='build')
+   depends_on('ninja', type='build')
 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ override the ``meson_args`` method like so:
 .. code-block:: python
 
    def meson_args(self):
-       return ["--warnlevel=3"]
+       return ['--warnlevel=3']
 
 
 This method can be used to pass flags as well as variables.

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/octavepackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/perlpackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ so ``PerlPackage`` contains:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   extends("perl")
+   extends('perl')
 
 
 If your package requires a specific version of Perl, you should
@@ -132,14 +132,14 @@ properly. If your package uses ``Makefile.PL`` to build, add:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("perl-extutils-makemaker", type="build")
+   depends_on('perl-extutils-makemaker', type='build')
 
 
 If your package uses ``Build.PL`` to build, add:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("perl-module-build", type="build")
+   depends_on('perl-module-build', type='build')
 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -165,11 +165,11 @@ arguments to ``Makefile.PL`` or ``Build.PL`` by overriding
 .. code-block:: python
 
    def configure_args(self):
-       expat = self.spec["expat"].prefix
+       expat = self.spec['expat'].prefix
 
        return [
-           "EXPATLIBPATH={0}".format(expat.lib),
-           "EXPATINCPATH={0}".format(expat.include),
+           'EXPATLIBPATH={0}'.format(expat.lib),
+           'EXPATINCPATH={0}'.format(expat.include),
        ]
 
 

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/pythonpackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/qmakepackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ base class already contains:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("qt", type="build")
+   depends_on('qt', type='build')
 
 
 If you want to specify a particular version requirement, or need to
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ link to the ``qt`` libraries, you can override this in your package:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("qt@5.6.0:")
+   depends_on('qt@5.6.0:')
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Passing arguments to qmake
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ override the ``qmake_args`` method like so:
 .. code-block:: python
 
    def qmake_args(self):
-       return ["-recursive"]
+       return ['-recursive']
 
 
 This method can be used to pass flags as well as variables.
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ sub-directory by adding the following to the package:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   build_directory = "src"
+   build_directory = 'src'
 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/racketpackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/rocmpackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/rpackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -163,28 +163,28 @@ attributes that can be used to set ``homepage``, ``url``, ``list_url``, and
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   cran = "caret"
+   cran = 'caret'
 
 is equivalent to:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=caret"
-   url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/caret_6.0-86.tar.gz"
-   list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/caret"
+   homepage = 'https://cloud.r-project.org/package=caret'
+   url      = 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/caret_6.0-86.tar.gz'
+   list_url = 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/caret'
 
 Likewise, the following ``bioc`` attribute:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   bioc = "BiocVersion"
+   bioc = 'BiocVersion'
 
 is equivalent to:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   homepage = "https://bioconductor.org/packages/BiocVersion/"
-   git      = "https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/BiocVersion"
+   homepage = 'https://bioconductor.org/packages/BiocVersion/'
+   git      = 'https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/BiocVersion'
 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ base class contains:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   extends("r")
+   extends('r')
 
 
 Take a close look at the homepage for ``caret``. If you look at the
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ You should add this to your package like so:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("r@3.2.0:", type=("build", "run"))
+   depends_on('r@3.2.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ and list all of their dependencies in the following sections:
 * LinkingTo
 
 As far as Spack is concerned, all 3 of these dependency types
-correspond to ``type=("build", "run")``, so you don't have to worry
+correspond to ``type=('build', 'run')``, so you don't have to worry
 about the details. If you are curious what they mean,
 https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/2951 has a pretty good summary:
 
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ the dependency:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("r-lattice@0.20:", type=("build", "run"))
+   depends_on('r-lattice@0.20:', type=('build', 'run'))
 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -361,20 +361,20 @@ like so:
 .. code-block:: python
 
    def configure_args(self):
-       mpi_name = self.spec["mpi"].name
+       mpi_name = self.spec['mpi'].name
 
        # The type of MPI. Supported values are:
        # OPENMPI, LAM, MPICH, MPICH2, or CRAY
-       if mpi_name == "openmpi":
-           Rmpi_type = "OPENMPI"
-       elif mpi_name == "mpich":
-           Rmpi_type = "MPICH2"
+       if mpi_name == 'openmpi':
+           Rmpi_type = 'OPENMPI'
+       elif mpi_name == 'mpich':
+           Rmpi_type = 'MPICH2'
        else:
-           raise InstallError("Unsupported MPI type")
+           raise InstallError('Unsupported MPI type')
 
        return [
-           "--with-Rmpi-type={0}".format(Rmpi_type),
-           "--with-mpi={0}".format(spec["mpi"].prefix),
+           '--with-Rmpi-type={0}'.format(Rmpi_type),
+           '--with-mpi={0}'.format(spec['mpi'].prefix),
        ]
 
 

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/rubypackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ The ``*.gemspec`` file may contain something like:
 
 .. code-block:: ruby
 
-   summary = "An implementation of the AsciiDoc text processor and publishing toolchain"
-   description = "A fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML 5, DocBook 5, and other formats."
+   summary = 'An implementation of the AsciiDoc text processor and publishing toolchain'
+   description = 'A fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML 5, DocBook 5, and other formats.'
 
 
 Either of these can be used for the description of the Spack package.
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ The ``*.gemspec`` file may contain something like:
 
 .. code-block:: ruby
 
-   homepage = "https://asciidoctor.org"
+   homepage = 'https://asciidoctor.org'
 
 
 This should be used as the official homepage of the Spack package.
@@ -112,21 +112,21 @@ the base class contains:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   extends("ruby")
+   extends('ruby')
 
 
 The ``*.gemspec`` file may contain something like:
 
 .. code-block:: ruby
 
-   required_ruby_version = ">= 2.3.0"
+   required_ruby_version = '>= 2.3.0'
 
 
 This can be added to the Spack package using:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("ruby@2.3.0:", type=("build", "run"))
+   depends_on('ruby@2.3.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/sconspackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/sippackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ are wrong, you can provide the names yourself by overriding
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   import_modules = ["PyQt5"]
+   import_modules = ['PyQt5']
 
 
 These tests often catch missing dependencies and non-RPATHed

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/sourceforgepackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/build_systems/wafpackage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ run package-specific unit tests.
 .. code-block:: python
 
    def installtest(self):
-       with working_dir("test"):
-           pytest = which("py.test")
+       with working_dir('test'):
+           pytest = which('py.test')
            pytest()
 
 
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ the following dependency automatically:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   depends_on("python@2.5:", type="build")
+   depends_on('python@2.5:', type='build')
 
 
 Waf only supports Python 2.5 and up.
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ phase, you can use:
        args = []
 
        if self.run_tests:
-           args.append("--test")
+           args.append('--test')
 
        return args
 

lib/spack/docs/chain.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/conf.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ def setup(sphinx):
     ("py:class", "contextlib.contextmanager"),
     ("py:class", "module"),
     ("py:class", "_io.BufferedReader"),
-    ("py:class", "_io.BytesIO"),
     ("py:class", "unittest.case.TestCase"),
     ("py:class", "_frozen_importlib_external.SourceFileLoader"),
     ("py:class", "clingo.Control"),
@@ -216,7 +215,6 @@ def setup(sphinx):
     ("py:class", "spack.spec.InstallStatus"),
     ("py:class", "spack.spec.SpecfileReaderBase"),
     ("py:class", "spack.install_test.Pb"),
-    ("py:class", "spack.filesystem_view.SimpleFilesystemView"),
 ]
 
 # The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all documents.

lib/spack/docs/config_yaml.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/configuration.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ case you want to skip directly to specific docs:
 * :ref:`config.yaml <config-yaml>`
 * :ref:`mirrors.yaml <mirrors>`
 * :ref:`modules.yaml <modules>`
-* :ref:`packages.yaml <packages-config>`
+* :ref:`packages.yaml <build-settings>`
 * :ref:`repos.yaml <repositories>`
 
 You can also add any of these as inline configuration in the YAML
@@ -73,12 +73,9 @@ are six configuration scopes. From lowest to highest:
    Spack instance per project) or for site-wide settings on a multi-user
    machine (e.g., for a common Spack instance).
 
-#. **plugin**: Read from a Python project's entry points. Settings here affect
-   all instances of Spack running with the same Python installation.  This scope takes higher precedence than site, system, and default scopes.
-
 #. **user**: Stored in the home directory: ``~/.spack/``. These settings
    affect all instances of Spack and take higher precedence than site,
-   system, plugin, or defaults scopes.
+   system, or defaults scopes.
 
 #. **custom**: Stored in a custom directory specified by ``--config-scope``.
    If multiple scopes are listed on the command line, they are ordered
@@ -199,45 +196,6 @@ with MPICH. You can create different configuration scopes for use with
                mpi: [mpich]
 
 
-.. _plugin-scopes:
-
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Plugin scopes
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-.. note::
-   Python version >= 3.8 is required to enable plugin configuration.
-
-Spack can be made aware of configuration scopes that are installed as part of a python package.  To do so, register a function that returns the scope's path to the ``"spack.config"`` entry point.  Consider the Python package ``my_package`` that includes Spack configurations:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-  my-package/
-  ├── src
-  │   ├── my_package
-  │   │   ├── __init__.py
-  │   │   └── spack/
-  │   │   │   └── config.yaml
-  └── pyproject.toml
-
-adding the following to ``my_package``'s ``pyproject.toml`` will make ``my_package``'s ``spack/`` configurations visible to Spack when ``my_package`` is installed:
-
-.. code-block:: toml
-
-   [project.entry_points."spack.config"]
-   my_package = "my_package:get_config_path"
-
-The function ``my_package.get_extension_path`` in ``my_package/__init__.py`` might look like
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-   import importlib.resources
-
-   def get_config_path():
-       dirname = importlib.resources.files("my_package").joinpath("spack")
-       if dirname.exists():
-           return str(dirname)
-
 .. _platform-scopes:
 
 ------------------------
@@ -285,11 +243,9 @@ lower-precedence settings. Completely ignoring higher-level configuration
 options is supported with the ``::`` notation for keys (see
 :ref:`config-overrides` below).
 
-There are also special notations for string concatenation and precendense override:
-
-* ``+:`` will force *prepending* strings or lists. For lists, this is the default behavior.
-* ``-:`` works similarly, but for *appending* values.
-
+There are also special notations for string concatenation and precendense override.
+Using the ``+:`` notation  can be used to force *prepending* strings or lists. For lists, this is identical
+to the default behavior. Using the ``-:`` works similarly, but for *appending* values.
 :ref:`config-prepend-append`
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^

lib/spack/docs/containers.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -9,96 +9,24 @@
 Container Images
 ================
 
-Spack :ref:`environments` can easily be turned into container images. This page
-outlines two ways in which this can be done:
-
-1. By installing the environment on the host system, and copying the installations
-   into the container image. This approach does not require any tools like Docker
-   or Singularity to be installed.
-2. By generating a Docker or Singularity recipe that can be used to build the
-   container image. In this approach, Spack builds the software inside the
-   container runtime, not on the host system.
-
-The first approach is easiest if you already have an installed environment,
-the second approach gives more control over the container image.
-
----------------------------
-From existing installations
----------------------------
-
-If you already have a Spack environment installed on your system, you can
-share the binaries as an OCI compatible container image. To get started you
-just have to configure and OCI registry and run ``spack buildcache push``.
-
-.. code-block:: console
-  
-   # Create and install an environment in the current directory
-   spack env create -d .
-   spack -e . add pkg-a pkg-b
-   spack -e . install
-
-   # Configure the registry
-   spack -e . mirror add --oci-username ... --oci-password ... container-registry oci://example.com/name/image
-
-   # Push the image
-   spack -e . buildcache push --update-index --base-image ubuntu:22.04 --tag my_env container-registry
-
-The resulting container image can then be run as follows:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-   $ docker run -it example.com/name/image:my_env
-
-The image generated by Spack consists of the specified base image with each package from the
-environment as a separate layer on top. The image is minimal by construction, it only contains the
-environment roots and its runtime dependencies.
-
-.. note::
-
-  When using registries like GHCR and Docker Hub, the ``--oci-password`` flag is not
-  the password for your account, but a personal access token you need to generate separately.
-
-The specified ``--base-image`` should have a libc that is compatible with the host system.
-For example if your host system is Ubuntu 20.04, you can use ``ubuntu:20.04``, ``ubuntu:22.04``
-or newer: the libc in the container image must be at least the version of the host system,
-assuming ABI compatibility. It is also perfectly fine to use a completely different
-Linux distribution as long as the libc is compatible.
-
-For convenience, Spack also turns the OCI registry into a :ref:`build cache <binary_caches_oci>`,
-so that future ``spack install`` of the environment will simply pull the binaries from the
-registry instead of doing source builds. The flag ``--update-index`` is needed to make Spack
-take the build cache into account when concretizing.
-
-.. note::
-
-  When generating container images in CI, the approach above is recommended when CI jobs
-  already run in a sandboxed environment. You can simply use ``spack`` directly
-  in the CI job and push the resulting image to a registry. Subsequent CI jobs should
-  run faster because Spack can install from the same registry instead of rebuilding from
-  sources.
-
----------------------------------------------
-Generating recipes for Docker and Singularity
----------------------------------------------
-
-Apart from copying existing installations into container images, Spack can also
-generate recipes for container images. This is useful if you want to run Spack
-itself in a sandboxed environment instead of on the host system.
-
-Since recipes need a little bit more boilerplate than
+Spack :ref:`environments` are a great tool to create container images, but
+preparing one that is suitable for production requires some more boilerplate
+than just:
 
 .. code-block:: docker
 
    COPY spack.yaml /environment
    RUN spack -e /environment install
 
-Spack provides a command to generate customizable recipes for container images. Customizations
-include minimizing the size of the image, installing packages in the base image using the system
-package manager, and setting up a proper entrypoint to run the image.
+Additional actions may be needed to minimize the size of the
+container, or to update the system software that is installed in the base
+image, or to set up a proper entrypoint to run the image. These tasks are
+usually both necessary and repetitive, so Spack comes with a command
+to generate recipes for container images starting from a ``spack.yaml``.
 
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+--------------------
 A Quick Introduction
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+--------------------
 
 Consider having a Spack environment like the following:
 
@@ -109,8 +37,8 @@ Consider having a Spack environment like the following:
      - gromacs+mpi
      - mpich
 
-Producing a ``Dockerfile`` from it is as simple as changing directories to
-where the ``spack.yaml`` file is stored and running the following command:
+Producing a ``Dockerfile`` from it is as simple as moving to the directory
+where the ``spack.yaml`` file is stored and giving the following command:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
@@ -176,9 +104,9 @@ configuration are discussed in details in the sections below.
 
 .. _container_spack_images:
 
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+--------------------------
 Spack Images on Docker Hub
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+--------------------------
 
 Docker images with Spack preinstalled and ready to be used are
 built when a release is tagged, or nightly on ``develop``. The images
@@ -248,9 +176,9 @@ by Spack use them as default base images for their ``build`` stage,
 even though handles to use custom base images provided by users are
 available to accommodate complex use cases.
 
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Configuring the Container Recipe
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+---------------------------------
+Creating Images From Environments
+---------------------------------
 
 Any Spack Environment can be used for the automatic generation of container
 recipes. Sensible defaults are provided for things like the base image or the
@@ -291,18 +219,18 @@ under the ``container`` attribute of environments:
 
 A detailed description of the options available can be found in the :ref:`container_config_options` section.
 
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-------------------
 Setting Base Images
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-------------------
 
 The ``images`` subsection is used to select both the image where
 Spack builds the software and the image where the built software
 is installed. This attribute can be set in different ways and
 which one to use depends on the use case at hand.
 
-""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Use Official Spack Images From Dockerhub
-""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 To generate a recipe that uses an official Docker image from the
 Spack organization to build the software and the corresponding official OS image
@@ -507,9 +435,9 @@ responsibility to ensure that:
 Therefore we don't recommend its use in cases that can be otherwise
 covered by the simplified mode shown first.
 
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+----------------------------
 Singularity Definition Files
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+----------------------------
 
 In addition to producing recipes in ``Dockerfile`` format Spack can produce
 Singularity Definition Files by just changing the value of the ``format``
@@ -530,9 +458,9 @@ attribute:
 The minimum version of Singularity required to build a SIF (Singularity Image Format)
 image from the recipes generated by Spack is ``3.5.3``.
 
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+------------------------------
 Extending the Jinja2 Templates
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+------------------------------
 
 The Dockerfile and the Singularity definition file that Spack can generate are based on
 a few Jinja2 templates that are rendered according to the environment being containerized.
@@ -653,9 +581,9 @@ The recipe that gets generated contains the two extra instruction that we added
 
 .. _container_config_options:
 
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-----------------------
 Configuration Reference
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-----------------------
 
 The tables below describe all the configuration options that are currently supported
 to customize the generation of container recipes:
@@ -752,13 +680,13 @@ to customize the generation of container recipes:
      - Description string
      - No
 
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+--------------
 Best Practices
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+--------------
 
-"""
+^^^
 MPI
-"""
+^^^
 Due to the dependency on Fortran for OpenMPI, which is the spack default
 implementation, consider adding ``gfortran`` to the ``apt-get install`` list.
 
@@ -769,9 +697,9 @@ For execution on HPC clusters, it can be helpful to import the docker
 image into Singularity in order to start a program with an *external*
 MPI. Otherwise, also add ``openssh-server`` to the ``apt-get install`` list.
 
-""""
+^^^^
 CUDA
-""""
+^^^^
 Starting from CUDA 9.0, Nvidia provides minimal CUDA images based on
 Ubuntu. Please see `their instructions <https://hub.docker.com/r/nvidia/cuda/>`_.
 Avoid double-installing CUDA by adding, e.g.
@@ -790,9 +718,9 @@ to your ``spack.yaml``.
 Users will either need ``nvidia-docker`` or e.g. Singularity to *execute*
 device kernels.
 
-"""""""""""""""""""""""""
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Docker on Windows and OSX
-"""""""""""""""""""""""""
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 On Mac OS and Windows, docker runs on a hypervisor that is not allocated much
 memory by default, and some spack packages may fail to build due to lack of

lib/spack/docs/contribution_guide.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/developer_guide.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -357,23 +357,91 @@ If there is a hook that you would like and is missing, you can propose to add a
 ``pre_install(spec)``
 """""""""""""""""""""
 
-A ``pre_install`` hook is run within the install subprocess, directly before the install starts.
-It expects a single argument of a spec.
+A ``pre_install`` hook is run within an install subprocess, directly before
+the install starts. It expects a single argument of a spec, and is run in
+a multiprocessing subprocess. Note that if you see ``pre_install`` functions associated with packages these are not hooks
+as we have defined them here, but rather callback functions associated with
+a package install.
 
 
-"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
-``post_install(spec, explicit=None)``
-"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+""""""""""""""""""""""
+``post_install(spec)``
+""""""""""""""""""""""
 
-A ``post_install`` hook is run within the install subprocess, directly after the install finishes,
-but before the build stage is removed and the spec is registered in the database. It expects two
-arguments: spec and an optional boolean indicating whether this spec is being installed explicitly.
+A ``post_install`` hook is run within an install subprocess, directly after
+the install finishes, but before the build stage is removed. If you
+write one of these hooks, you should expect it to accept a spec as the only
+argument. This is run in a multiprocessing subprocess. This ``post_install`` is
+also seen in packages, but in this context not related to the hooks described
+here.
 
-""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
-``pre_uninstall(spec)`` and ``post_uninstall(spec)``
-""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
 
-These hooks are currently used for cleaning up module files after uninstall.
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+``on_install_start(spec)``
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+This hook is run at the beginning of ``lib/spack/spack/installer.py``,
+in the install function of a ``PackageInstaller``,
+and importantly is not part of a build process, but before it. This is when
+we have just newly grabbed the task, and are preparing to install. If you
+write a hook of this type, you should provide the spec to it.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    def on_install_start(spec):
+        """On start of an install, we want to...
+        """
+        print('on_install_start')
+
+
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+``on_install_success(spec)``
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+This hook is run on a successful install, and is also run inside the build
+process, akin to ``post_install``. The main difference is that this hook
+is run outside of the context of the stage directory, meaning after the
+build stage has been removed and the user is alerted that the install was
+successful. If you need to write a hook that is run on success of a particular
+phase, you should use ``on_phase_success``.
+
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+``on_install_failure(spec)``
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+This hook is run given an install failure that happens outside of the build
+subprocess, but somewhere in ``installer.py`` when something else goes wrong.
+If you need to write a hook that is relevant to a failure within a build
+process, you would want to instead use ``on_phase_failure``.
+
+
+"""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+``on_install_cancel(spec)``
+"""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+The same, but triggered if a spec install is cancelled for any reason.
+
+
+"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+``on_phase_success(pkg, phase_name, log_file)``
+"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+This hook is run within the install subprocess, and specifically when a phase
+successfully finishes. Since we are interested in the package, the name of
+the phase, and any output from it, we require:
+
+ - **pkg**: the package variable, which also has the attached spec at ``pkg.spec``
+ - **phase_name**: the name of the phase that was successful (e.g., configure)
+ - **log_file**: the path to the file with output, in case you need to inspect or otherwise interact with it.
+
+"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+``on_phase_error(pkg, phase_name, log_file)``
+"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+In the case of an error during a phase, we might want to trigger some event
+with a hook, and this is the purpose of this particular hook. Akin to
+``on_phase_success`` we require the same variables - the package that failed,
+the name of the phase, and the log file where we might find errors.
 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

lib/spack/docs/environments.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -142,21 +142,6 @@ user's prompt to begin with the environment name in brackets.
    $ spack env activate -p myenv
    [myenv] $ ...
 
-The ``activate`` command can also be used to create a new environment, if it is
-not already defined, by adding the ``--create`` flag. Managed and anonymous
-environments, anonymous environments are explained in the next section,
-can both be created using the same flags that `spack env create` accepts.
-If an environment already exists then spack will simply activate it and ignore the
-create specific flags.
-
-.. code-block:: console
-   
-   $ spack env activate --create -p myenv
-   # ...
-   # [creates if myenv does not exist yet]
-   # ...
-   [myenv] $ ...
-
 To deactivate an environment, use the command:
 
 .. code-block:: console
@@ -416,23 +401,6 @@ that git clone if ``foo`` is in the environment.
 Further development on ``foo`` can be tested by reinstalling the environment,
 and eventually committed and pushed to the upstream git repo.
 
-If the package being developed supports out-of-source builds then users can use the
-``--build_directory`` flag to control the location and name of the build directory. 
-This is a shortcut to set the ``package_attributes:build_directory`` in the
-``packages`` configuration (see :ref:`assigning-package-attributes`).
-The supplied location will become the build-directory for that package in all future builds.
-
-.. warning::
-   Potential pitfalls of setting the build directory
-    Spack does not check for out-of-source build compatibility with the packages and
-    so the onerous of making sure the package supports out-of-source builds is on
-    the user.
-    For example, most ``autotool`` and ``makefile`` packages do not support out-of-source builds
-    while all ``CMake`` packages do.
-    Understanding these nuances are on the software developers and we strongly encourage
-    developers to only redirect the build directory if they understand their package's
-    build-system.
-
 ^^^^^^^
 Loading
 ^^^^^^^
@@ -489,11 +457,11 @@ a ``packages.yaml`` file) could contain:
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
    spack:
-     # ...
+     ...
      packages:
        all:
          compiler: [intel]
-     # ...
+     ...
 
 This configuration sets the default compiler for all packages to
 ``intel``.
@@ -839,7 +807,7 @@ directories.
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
    spack:
-     # ...
+     ...
      view:
        mpis:
          root: /path/to/view
@@ -883,7 +851,7 @@ automatically named ``default``, so that
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
    spack:
-     # ...
+     ...
      view: True
 
 is equivalent to
@@ -891,7 +859,7 @@ is equivalent to
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
    spack:
-     # ...
+     ...
      view:
        default:
          root: .spack-env/view
@@ -901,7 +869,7 @@ and
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
    spack:
-     # ...
+     ...
      view: /path/to/view
 
 is equivalent to
@@ -909,7 +877,7 @@ is equivalent to
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
    spack:
-     # ...
+     ...
      view:
        default:
          root: /path/to/view
@@ -952,17 +920,6 @@ function, as shown in the example below:
      ^mpi: "{name}-{version}/{^mpi.name}-{^mpi.version}-{compiler.name}-{compiler.version}"
      all: "{name}-{version}/{compiler.name}-{compiler.version}"
 
-Projections also permit environment and spack configuration variable
-expansions as shown below:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   projections:
-     all: "{name}-{version}/{compiler.name}-{compiler.version}/$date/$SYSTEM_ENV_VARIBLE"
-
-where ``$date`` is the spack configuration variable that will expand with the ``YYYY-MM-DD``
-format and ``$SYSTEM_ENV_VARIABLE`` is an environment variable defined in the shell.
-
 The entries in the projections configuration file must all be either
 specs or the keyword ``all``. For each spec, the projection used will
 be the first non-``all`` entry that the spec satisfies, or ``all`` if

lib/spack/docs/extensions.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -9,42 +9,46 @@
 Custom Extensions
 =================
 
-*Spack extensions* allow you to extend Spack capabilities by deploying your
+*Spack extensions* permit you to extend Spack capabilities by deploying your
 own custom commands or logic in an arbitrary location on your filesystem.
 This might be extremely useful e.g. to develop and maintain a command whose purpose is
 too specific to be considered for reintegration into the mainline or to
 evolve a command through its early stages before starting a discussion to merge
 it upstream.
-
 From Spack's point of view an extension is any path in your filesystem which
-respects the following naming and layout for files:
+respects a prescribed naming and layout for files:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
   spack-scripting/ # The top level directory must match the format 'spack-{extension_name}'
   ├── pytest.ini # Optional file if the extension ships its own tests
   ├── scripting # Folder that may contain modules that are needed for the extension commands
-  │   ├── cmd # Folder containing extension commands
-  │   │   └── filter.py # A new command that will be available
-  │   └── functions.py # Module with internal details
-  └── tests # Tests for this extension
+  │   └── cmd # Folder containing extension commands
+  │       └── filter.py # A new command that will be available
+  ├── tests # Tests for this extension
   │   ├── conftest.py
   │   └── test_filter.py
   └── templates # Templates that may be needed by the extension
 
-In the example above, the extension is named *scripting*. It adds an additional command
-(``spack filter``) and unit tests to verify its behavior.
+In the example above the extension named *scripting* adds an additional command (``filter``)
+and unit tests to verify its behavior. The code for this example can be
+obtained by cloning the corresponding git repository:
 
-The extension can import any core Spack module in its implementation. When loaded by
-the ``spack`` command, the extension itself is imported as a Python package in the
-``spack.extensions`` namespace. In the example above, since the extension is named
-"scripting", the corresponding Python module is ``spack.extensions.scripting``.
-
-The code for this example extension can be obtained by cloning the corresponding git repository:
+.. TODO: write an ad-hoc "hello world" extension and make it part of the spack organization
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
-   $ git -C /tmp clone https://github.com/spack/spack-scripting.git
+   $ cd ~/
+   $ mkdir tmp && cd tmp
+   $ git clone https://github.com/alalazo/spack-scripting.git
+   Cloning into 'spack-scripting'...
+   remote: Counting objects: 11, done.
+   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.
+   remote: Total 11 (delta 0), reused 11 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
+   Receiving objects: 100% (11/11), done.
+
+As you can see by inspecting the sources, Python modules that are part of the extension
+can import any core Spack module.
 
 ---------------------------------
 Configure Spack to Use Extensions
@@ -57,7 +61,7 @@ paths to ``config.yaml``. In the case of our example this means ensuring that:
 
    config:
      extensions:
-     - /tmp/spack-scripting
+     - ~/tmp/spack-scripting
 
 is part of your configuration file. Once this is setup any command that the extension provides
 will be available from the command line:
@@ -82,68 +86,37 @@ will be available from the command line:
      --implicit       select specs that are not installed or were installed implicitly
      --output OUTPUT  where to dump the result
 
-The corresponding unit tests can be run giving the appropriate options to ``spack unit-test``:
+The corresponding unit tests can be run giving the appropriate options
+to ``spack unit-test``:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
    $ spack unit-test --extension=scripting
-   ========================================== test session starts ===========================================
-   platform linux -- Python 3.11.5, pytest-7.4.3, pluggy-1.3.0
-   rootdir: /home/culpo/github/spack-scripting
-   configfile: pytest.ini
-   testpaths: tests
-   plugins: xdist-3.5.0
+
+   ============================================================== test session starts ===============================================================
+   platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.15rc1, pytest-3.2.5, py-1.4.34, pluggy-0.4.0
+   rootdir: /home/mculpo/tmp/spack-scripting, inifile: pytest.ini
    collected 5 items
 
-   tests/test_filter.py .....                                                                         [100%]
+   tests/test_filter.py ...XX
+   ============================================================ short test summary info =============================================================
+   XPASS tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags3-specs3-expected3]
+   XPASS tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags4-specs4-expected4]
 
-   ========================================== slowest 30 durations ==========================================
-   2.31s setup    tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[kwargs0-specs0-expected0]
-   0.57s call     tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[kwargs2-specs2-expected2]
-   0.56s call     tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[kwargs4-specs4-expected4]
-   0.54s call     tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[kwargs3-specs3-expected3]
-   0.54s call     tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[kwargs1-specs1-expected1]
-   0.48s call     tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[kwargs0-specs0-expected0]
-   0.01s setup    tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[kwargs4-specs4-expected4]
-   0.01s setup    tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[kwargs2-specs2-expected2]
-   0.01s setup    tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[kwargs1-specs1-expected1]
-   0.01s setup    tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[kwargs3-specs3-expected3]
-
-   (5 durations < 0.005s hidden.  Use -vv to show these durations.)
-   =========================================== 5 passed in 5.06s ============================================
-
----------------------------------------
-Registering Extensions via Entry Points
----------------------------------------
-
-.. note::
-   Python version >= 3.8 is required to register extensions via entry points.
-
-Spack can be made aware of extensions that are installed as part of a python package.  To do so, register a function that returns the extension path, or paths, to the ``"spack.extensions"`` entry point.  Consider the Python package ``my_package`` that includes a Spack extension:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-  my-package/
-  ├── src
-  │   ├── my_package
-  │   │   └── __init__.py
-  │   └── spack-scripting/  # the spack extensions
-  └── pyproject.toml
-
-adding the following to ``my_package``'s ``pyproject.toml`` will make the ``spack-scripting`` extension visible to Spack when ``my_package`` is installed:
-
-.. code-block:: toml
-
-   [project.entry_points."spack.extenions"]
-   my_package = "my_package:get_extension_path"
-
-The function ``my_package.get_extension_path`` in ``my_package/__init__.py`` might look like
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-   import importlib.resources
-
-   def get_extension_path():
-       dirname = importlib.resources.files("my_package").joinpath("spack-scripting")
-       if dirname.exists():
-           return str(dirname)
+   =========================================================== slowest 20 test durations ============================================================
+   3.74s setup    tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags0-specs0-expected0]
+   0.17s call     tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags3-specs3-expected3]
+   0.16s call     tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags2-specs2-expected2]
+   0.15s call     tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags1-specs1-expected1]
+   0.13s call     tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags4-specs4-expected4]
+   0.08s call     tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags0-specs0-expected0]
+   0.04s teardown tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags4-specs4-expected4]
+   0.00s setup    tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags4-specs4-expected4]
+   0.00s setup    tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags3-specs3-expected3]
+   0.00s setup    tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags1-specs1-expected1]
+   0.00s setup    tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags2-specs2-expected2]
+   0.00s teardown tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags2-specs2-expected2]
+   0.00s teardown tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags1-specs1-expected1]
+   0.00s teardown tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags0-specs0-expected0]
+   0.00s teardown tests/test_filter.py::test_filtering_specs[flags3-specs3-expected3]
+   ====================================================== 3 passed, 2 xpassed in 4.51 seconds =======================================================

lib/spack/docs/features.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/frequently_asked_questions.rst

@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
-   Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
-
-   SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
-
-==========================
-Frequently Asked Questions
-==========================
-
-This page contains answers to frequently asked questions about Spack.
-If you have questions that are not answered here, feel free to ask on
-`Slack <https://slack.spack.io>`_ or `GitHub Discussions
-<https://github.com/spack/spack/discussions>`_. If you've learned the
-answer to a question that you think should be here, please consider
-contributing to this page.
-
-.. _faq-concretizer-precedence:
-
------------------------------------------------------
-Why does Spack pick particular versions and variants?
------------------------------------------------------
-
-This question comes up in a variety of forms:
-
- 1. Why does Spack seem to ignore my package preferences from ``packages.yaml`` config?
- 2. Why does Spack toggle a variant instead of using the default from the ``package.py`` file?
-
-The short answer is that Spack always picks an optimal configuration
-based on a complex set of criteria\ [#f1]_. These criteria are more nuanced
-than always choosing the latest versions or default variants.
-
-.. note::
-
-    As a rule of thumb: requirements + constraints > reuse > preferences > defaults.
-
-The following set of criteria (from lowest to highest precedence) explain
-common cases where concretization output may seem surprising at first.
-
-1. :ref:`Package preferences <package-preferences>` configured in ``packages.yaml``
-   override variant defaults from ``package.py`` files, and influence the optimal
-   ordering of versions. Preferences are specified as follows:
-
-   .. code-block:: yaml
-
-      packages:
-        foo:
-          version: [1.0, 1.1]
-          variants: ~mpi
-
-2. :ref:`Reuse concretization <concretizer-options>` configured in ``concretizer.yaml``
-   overrides preferences, since it's typically faster to reuse an existing spec than to
-   build a preferred one from sources. When build caches are enabled, specs may be reused
-   from a remote location too. Reuse concretization is configured as follows:
-
-   .. code-block:: yaml
-
-      concretizer:
-        reuse: dependencies  # other options are 'true' and 'false'
-
-3. :ref:`Package requirements <package-requirements>` configured in ``packages.yaml``,
-   and constraints from the command line as well as ``package.py`` files override all
-   of the above. Requirements are specified as follows:
-
-   .. code-block:: yaml
-
-      packages:
-        foo:
-          require:
-          - "@1.2: +mpi"
-
-Requirements and constraints restrict the set of possible solutions, while reuse
-behavior and preferences influence what an optimal solution looks like.
-
-
-.. rubric:: Footnotes
-
-.. [#f1] The exact list of criteria can be retrieved with the ``spack solve`` command

lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ Fortran.
 
       compilers:
       - compiler:
-        # ...
+        ...
         paths:
           cc: /usr/bin/clang
           cxx: /usr/bin/clang++

lib/spack/docs/gpu_configuration.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -111,28 +111,3 @@ CUDA is split into fewer components and is simpler to specify:
          prefix: /opt/cuda/cuda-11.0.2/
 
 where ``/opt/cuda/cuda-11.0.2/lib/`` contains ``libcudart.so``.
-
-
-
------------------------------------
-Using an External OpenGL API
------------------------------------
-Depending on whether we have a graphics card or not, we may choose to use OSMesa or GLX to implement the OpenGL API.
-
-If a graphics card is unavailable, OSMesa is recommended and can typically be built with Spack.
-However, if we prefer to utilize the system GLX tailored to our graphics card, we need to declare it as an external. Here's how to do it:
-
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  packages:
-    libglx:
-      require: [opengl]
-    opengl:
-      buildable: false
-      externals:
-      - prefix: /usr/
-        spec: opengl@4.6
-
-Note that prefix has to be the root of both the libraries and the headers, using is /usr not the path the the lib.
-To know which spec for opengl is available use ``cd /usr/include/GL && grep -Ri gl_version``.

lib/spack/docs/index.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ or refer to the full manual below.
    getting_started
    basic_usage
    replace_conda_homebrew
-   frequently_asked_questions
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
@@ -71,7 +70,7 @@ or refer to the full manual below.
 
    configuration
    config_yaml
-   packages_yaml
+   bootstrapping
    build_settings
    environments
    containers
@@ -79,7 +78,6 @@ or refer to the full manual below.
    module_file_support
    repositories
    binary_caches
-   bootstrapping
    command_index
    chain
    extensions

lib/spack/docs/mirrors.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/module_file_support.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Modules (modules.yaml)
 ======================
 
 The use of module systems to manage user environment in a controlled way
-is a common practice at HPC centers that is sometimes embraced also by
+is a common practice at HPC centers that is often embraced also by
 individual programmers on their development machines. To support this
 common practice Spack integrates with `Environment Modules
 <http://modules.sourceforge.net/>`_ and `Lmod
@@ -21,38 +21,14 @@ Modules are one of several ways you can use Spack packages. For other
 options that may fit your use case better, you should also look at
 :ref:`spack load <spack-load>` and :ref:`environments <environments>`.
 
------------
-Quick start
------------
+----------------------------
+Using module files via Spack
+----------------------------
 
-In the current version of Spack, module files are not generated by default. To get started, you
-can generate module files for all currently installed packages by running either
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-   $ spack module tcl refresh
-
-or
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-   $ spack module lmod refresh
-
-Spack can also generate module files for all future installations automatically through the
-following configuration:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-   $ spack config add modules:default:enable:[tcl]
-
-or
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-   $ spack config add modules:default:enable:[lmod]
-
-Assuming you have a module system installed, you should now be able to use the ``module`` command
-to interact with them:
+If you have installed a supported module system you should be able to
+run ``module avail`` to see what module
+files have been installed. Here is sample output of those programs,
+showing lots of installed packages:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
@@ -89,17 +65,33 @@ scheme used at your site.
 Module file customization
 -------------------------
 
+Module files are generated by post-install hooks after the successful
+installation of a package.
+
+.. note::
+
+   Spack only generates modulefiles when a package is installed. If
+   you attempt to install a package and it is already installed, Spack
+   will not regenerate modulefiles for the package. This may lead to
+   inconsistent modulefiles if the Spack module configuration has
+   changed since the package was installed, either by editing a file
+   or changing scopes or environments.
+
+   Later in this section there is a subsection on :ref:`regenerating
+   modules <cmd-spack-module-refresh>` that will allow you to bring
+   your modules to a consistent state.
+
 The table below summarizes the essential information associated with
 the different file formats that can be generated by Spack:
 
 
-  +-----------+--------------+------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+----------------------+
-  |           | Hierarchical |  **Default root directory**  | **Default template file**                    | **Compatible tools** |
-  +===========+==============+==============================+==============================================+======================+
-  |  ``tcl``  | No           | share/spack/modules          | share/spack/templates/modules/modulefile.tcl | Env. Modules/Lmod    |
-  +-----------+--------------+------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+----------------------+
-  |  ``lmod`` | Yes          | share/spack/lmod             | share/spack/templates/modules/modulefile.lua | Lmod                 |
-  +-----------+--------------+------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+----------------------+
+  +-----------------------------+--------------------+-------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+----------------------+
+  |                             | **Hook name**      |  **Default root directory**   | **Default template file**                    | **Compatible tools** |
+  +=============================+====================+===============================+==============================================+======================+
+  |  **Tcl - Non-Hierarchical** | ``tcl``            |  share/spack/modules          | share/spack/templates/modules/modulefile.tcl | Env. Modules/Lmod    |
+  +-----------------------------+--------------------+-------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+----------------------+
+  |  **Lua - Hierarchical**     | ``lmod``           |  share/spack/lmod             | share/spack/templates/modules/modulefile.lua | Lmod                 |
+  +-----------------------------+--------------------+-------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+----------------------+
 
 
 Spack ships with sensible defaults for the generation of module files, but
@@ -110,7 +102,7 @@ In general you can override or extend the default behavior by:
  2. writing specific rules in the ``modules.yaml`` configuration file
  3. writing your own templates to override or extend the defaults
 
-The former method lets you express changes in the run-time environment
+The former method let you express changes in the run-time environment
 that are needed to use the installed software properly, e.g. injecting variables
 from language interpreters into their extensions. The latter two instead permit to
 fine tune the filesystem layout, content and creation of module files to meet
@@ -118,62 +110,79 @@ site specific conventions.
 
 .. _overide-api-calls-in-package-py:
 
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Setting environment variables dynamically in ``package.py``
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Override API calls in ``package.py``
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-There are two methods that you can implement in any ``package.py`` to dynamically affect the
-content of the module files generated by Spack. The most important one is
-``setup_run_environment``, which can be used to set environment variables in the module file that
-depend on the spec:
+There are two methods that you can override in any ``package.py`` to affect the
+content of the module files generated by Spack. The first one:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
    def setup_run_environment(self, env):
-       if self.spec.satisfies("+foo"):
-           env.set("FOO", "bar")
+       pass
 
-The second, less commonly used, is ``setup_dependent_run_environment(self, env, dependent_spec)``,
-which allows a dependency to set variables in the module file of its dependents. This is typically
-used in packages like ``python``, ``r``, or ``perl`` to prepend the dependent's prefix to the
-search path of the interpreter (``PYTHONPATH``, ``R_LIBS``, ``PERL5LIB`` resp.), so it can locate
-the packages at runtime.
-
-For example, a simplified version of the ``python`` package could look like this:
+can alter the content of the module file associated with the same package where it is overridden.
+The second method:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
    def setup_dependent_run_environment(self, env, dependent_spec):
-       if dependent_spec.package.extends(self.spec):
-           env.prepend_path("PYTHONPATH", dependent_spec.prefix.lib.python)
+       pass
 
-and would make any package that ``extends("python")`` have its library directory added to the
-``PYTHONPATH`` environment variable in the module file. It's much more convenient to set this
-variable here, than to repeat it in every Python extension's ``setup_run_environment`` method.
+can instead inject run-time environment modifications in the module files of packages
+that depend on it. In both cases you need to fill ``env`` with the desired
+list of environment modifications.
+
+.. admonition:: The ``r`` package and callback APIs
+
+  An example in which it is crucial to override both methods
+  is given by the ``r`` package. This package installs libraries and headers
+  in non-standard locations and it is possible to prepend the appropriate directory
+  to the corresponding environment variables:
+
+  ================== =================================
+   LD_LIBRARY_PATH    ``self.prefix/rlib/R/lib``
+   PKG_CONFIG_PATH    ``self.prefix/rlib/pkgconfig``
+  ================== =================================
+
+  with the following snippet:
+
+  .. literalinclude:: _spack_root/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r/package.py
+     :pyobject: R.setup_run_environment
+
+  The ``r`` package also knows which environment variable should be modified
+  to make language extensions provided by other packages available, and modifies
+  it appropriately in the override of the second method:
+
+  .. literalinclude:: _spack_root/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r/package.py
+     :pyobject: R.setup_dependent_run_environment
 
 .. _modules-yaml:
 
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-The ``modules.yaml`` config file and module sets
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Write a configuration file
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-The configuration files that control module generation behavior are named ``modules.yaml``. The
-default configuration looks like this:
+The configuration files that control module generation behavior
+are named ``modules.yaml``. The default configuration:
 
 .. literalinclude:: _spack_root/etc/spack/defaults/modules.yaml
    :language: yaml
 
-You can define one or more **module sets**, each of which can be configured separately with regard
-to install location, naming scheme, inclusion and exclusion, autoloading, et cetera.
+activates the hooks to generate ``tcl`` module files and inspects
+the installation folder of each package for the presence of a set of subdirectories
+(``bin``, ``man``, ``share/man``, etc.). If any is found its full path is prepended
+to the environment variables listed below the folder name.
 
-The default module set is aptly named ``default``. All
-:ref:`Spack commands that operate on modules <maintaining-module-files>` apply to the ``default``
-module set, unless another module set is specified explicitly (with the ``--name`` flag).
+Spack modules can be configured for multiple module sets. The default
+module set is named ``default``. All Spack commands which operate on
+modules default to apply the ``default`` module set, but can be
+applied to any module set in the configuration.
 
-
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+"""""""""""""""""""""""""
 Changing the modules root
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+"""""""""""""""""""""""""
 
 As shown in the table above, the default module root for ``lmod`` is
 ``$spack/share/spack/lmod`` and the default root for ``tcl`` is
@@ -189,7 +198,7 @@ set by changing the ``roots`` key of the configuration.
      my_custom_lmod_modules:
        roots:
          lmod: /path/to/install/custom/lmod/modules
-         # ...
+         ...
 
 This configuration will create two module sets. The default module set
 will install its ``tcl`` modules to ``/path/to/install/tcl/modules``
@@ -215,32 +224,25 @@ location could be confusing to users of your modules. In the next
 section, we will discuss enabling and disabling module types (module
 file generators) for each module set.
 
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Automatically generating module files
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+""""""""""""""""""""
+Activate other hooks
+""""""""""""""""""""
 
-Spack can be configured to automatically generate module files as part of package installation.
-This is done by adding the desired module systems to the ``enable`` list.
+Any other module file generator shipped with Spack can be activated adding it to the
+list under the ``enable`` key in the module file. Currently the only generator that
+is not active by default is ``lmod``, which produces hierarchical lua module files.
+
+Each module system can then be configured separately. In fact, you should list configuration
+options that affect a particular type of module files under a top level key corresponding
+to the generator being customized:
 
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
    modules:
      default:
        enable:
-       - tcl
-       - lmod
-
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Configuring ``tcl`` and ``lmod`` modules
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-You can configure the behavior of either module system separately, under a key corresponding to
-the generator being customized:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   modules:
-     default:
+         - tcl
+         - lmod
        tcl:
          # contains environment modules specific customizations
        lmod:
@@ -251,82 +253,16 @@ either change the layout of the module files on the filesystem, or they will aff
 their content. For the latter point it is possible to use anonymous specs
 to fine tune the set of packages on which the modifications should be applied.
 
-.. _autoloading-dependencies:
-
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Autoloading and hiding dependencies
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-A module file should set the variables that are needed for an application to work. But since an
-application often has many dependencies, where should all the environment variables for those be
-set? In Spack the rule is that each package sets the runtime variables that are needed by the
-package itself, and no more. This way, dependencies can be loaded standalone too, and duplication
-of environment variables is avoided.
-
-That means however that if you want to use an application, you need to load the modules for all its
-dependencies. Of course this is not something you would want users to do manually.
-
-Since Spack knows the dependency graph of every package, it can easily generate module files that
-automatically load the modules for its dependencies recursively. It is enabled by default for both
-Lmod and Environment Modules under the ``autoload: direct`` config option. The former system has
-builtin support through the ``depends_on`` function, the latter simply uses a ``module load``
-statement. Both module systems (at least in newer versions) do reference counting, so that if a
-module is loaded by two different modules, it will only be unloaded after the others are.
-
-The ``autoload`` key accepts the values:
-
-  * ``none``: no autoloading
-  * ``run``: autoload direct *run* type dependencies
-  * ``direct``: autoload direct *link and run* type dependencies
-  * ``all``: autoload all dependencies
-
-In case of ``run`` and ``direct``, a ``module load`` triggers a recursive load.
-
-The ``direct`` option is most correct: there are cases where pure link dependencies need to set
-variables for themselves, or need to have variables of their own dependencies set.
-
-In practice however, ``run`` is often sufficient, and may make ``module load`` snappier.
-
-The ``all`` option is discouraged and seldomly used.
-
-A common complaint about autoloading is the large number of modules that are visible to the user.
-Spack has a solution for this as well: ``hide_implicits: true``. This ensures that only those
-packages you've explicitly installed are exposed by ``module avail``, but still allows for
-autoloading of hidden dependencies. Lmod should support hiding implicits in general, while
-Environment Modules requires version 4.7 or higher.
-
-.. note::
-   If supported by your module system, we highly encourage the following configuration that enables
-   autoloading and hiding of implicits. It ensures all runtime variables are set correctly,
-   including those for dependencies, without overwhelming the user with a large number of available
-   modules. Further, it makes it easier to get readable module names without collisions, see the
-   section below on :ref:`modules-projections`.
-
-    .. code-block:: yaml
-  
-        modules:
-          default:
-            tcl:
-              hide_implicits: true
-              all:
-                autoload: direct # or `run`
-            lmod:
-              hide_implicits: true
-              all:
-                autoload: direct # or `run`
-
 .. _anonymous_specs:
 
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Setting environment variables for selected packages in config
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+Selection by anonymous specs
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
 
-In the configuration file you can filter particular specs, and make further changes to the
-environment variables that go into their module files. This is very powerful when you want to avoid
-:ref:`modifying the package itself <overide-api-calls-in-package-py>`, or when you want to set
-certain variables on multiple selected packages at once.
-
-For instance, in the snippet below:
+In the configuration file you can use *anonymous specs* (i.e. specs
+that **are not required to have a root package** and are thus used just
+to express constraints) to apply certain modifications on a selected set
+of the installed software. For instance, in the snippet below:
 
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
@@ -369,28 +305,12 @@ the variable ``FOOBAR`` will be unset.
 .. note::
    Order does matter
      The modifications associated with the ``all`` keyword are always evaluated
-     first, no matter where they appear in the configuration file. All the other changes to
-     environment variables for matching specs are evaluated from top to bottom.
+     first, no matter where they appear in the configuration file. All the other
+     spec constraints are instead evaluated top to bottom.
 
-.. warning::
-
-     As general advice, it's often better to set as few unnecessary variables as possible. For
-     example, the following seemingly innocent and potentially useful configuration
-
-     .. code-block:: yaml
-
-        all:
-          environment:
-            set:
-              "{name}_ROOT": "{prefix}"
-
-     sets ``BINUTILS_ROOT`` to its prefix in modules for ``binutils``, which happens to break
-     the ``gcc`` compiler: it uses this variable as its default search path for certain object
-     files and libraries, and by merely setting it, everything fails to link.
-
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
 Exclude or include specific module files
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
 
 You can use anonymous specs also to prevent module files from being written or
 to force them to be written. Consider the case where you want to hide from users
@@ -410,19 +330,14 @@ you will prevent the generation of module files for any package that
 is compiled with ``gcc@4.4.7``, with the only exception of any ``gcc``
 or any ``llvm`` installation.
 
-It is safe to combine ``exclude`` and ``autoload``
-:ref:`mentioned above <autoloading-dependencies>`. When ``exclude`` prevents a module file to be
-generated for a dependency, the ``autoload`` feature will simply not generate a statement to load
-it.
-
 
 .. _modules-projections:
 
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
 Customize the naming of modules
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
 
-The names of environment modules generated by Spack are not always easy to
+The names of environment modules generated by spack are not always easy to
 fully comprehend due to the long hash in the name. There are three module
 configuration options to help with that. The first is a global setting to
 adjust the hash length. It can be set anywhere from 0 to 32 and has a default
@@ -438,13 +353,6 @@ shows how to set hash length in the module file names:
        tcl:
          hash_length: 7
 
-.. tip::
-
-   Using ``hide_implicits: true`` (see :ref:`autoloading-dependencies`) vastly reduces the number
-   modules exposed to the user. The hidden modules always contain the hash in their name, and are
-   not influenced by the ``hash_length`` setting. Hidden implicits thus make it easier to use a
-   short hash length or no hash at all, without risking name conflicts.
-
 To help make module names more readable, and to help alleviate name conflicts
 with a short hash, one can use the ``suffixes`` option in the modules
 configuration file. This option will add strings to modules that match a spec.
@@ -457,12 +365,12 @@ For instance, the following config options,
        tcl:
          all:
            suffixes:
-             ^python@3.12: 'python-3.12'
+             ^python@2.7.12: 'python-2.7.12'
              ^openblas: 'openblas'
 
-will add a ``python-3.12`` version string to any packages compiled with
-Python matching the spec, ``python@3.12``. This is useful to know which
-version of Python a set of Python extensions is associated with. Likewise, the
+will add a ``python-2.7.12`` version string to any packages compiled with
+python matching the spec, ``python@2.7.12``. This is useful to know which
+version of python a set of python extensions is associated with. Likewise, the
 ``openblas`` string is attached to any program that has openblas in the spec,
 most likely via the ``+blas`` variant specification.
 
@@ -560,11 +468,41 @@ that are already in the Lmod hierarchy.
    For hierarchies that are deeper than three layers ``lmod spider`` may have some issues.
    See `this discussion on the Lmod project <https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/issues/114>`_.
 
+""""""""""""""""""""""
+Select default modules
+""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+By default, when multiple modules of the same name share a directory,
+the highest version number will be the default module. This behavior
+of the ``module`` command can be overridden with a symlink named
+``default`` to the desired default module. If you wish to configure
+default modules with Spack, add a ``defaults`` key to your modules
+configuration:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+  modules:
+    my-module-set:
+      tcl:
+        defaults:
+        - gcc@10.2.1
+        - hdf5@1.2.10+mpi+hl%gcc
+
+These defaults may be arbitrarily specific. For any package that
+satisfies a default, Spack will generate the module file in the
+appropriate path, and will generate a default symlink to the module
+file as well.
+
+.. warning::
+  If Spack is configured to generate multiple default packages in the
+  same directory, the last modulefile to be generated will be the
+  default module.
+
 .. _customize-env-modifications:
 
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
 Customize environment modifications
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
 
 You can control which prefixes in a Spack package are added to
 environment variables with the ``prefix_inspections`` section; this
@@ -662,9 +600,9 @@ stack to users who are likely to inspect the modules to find full
 paths to software, when it is desirable to present the users with a
 simpler set of paths than those generated by the Spack install tree.
 
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
 Filter out environment modifications
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
 
 Modifications to certain environment variables in module files are there by
 default, for instance because they are generated by prefix inspections.
@@ -684,37 +622,49 @@ do so by using the ``exclude_env_vars``:
 The configuration above will generate module files that will not contain
 modifications to either ``CPATH`` or ``LIBRARY_PATH``.
 
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Select default modules
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-By default, when multiple modules of the same name share a directory,
-the highest version number will be the default module. This behavior
-of the ``module`` command can be overridden with a symlink named
-``default`` to the desired default module. If you wish to configure
-default modules with Spack, add a ``defaults`` key to your modules
-configuration:
+.. _autoloading-dependencies:
+
+"""""""""""""""""""""
+Autoload dependencies
+"""""""""""""""""""""
+
+Often it is required for a module to have its (transient) dependencies loaded as well.
+One example where this is useful is when one package needs to use executables provided
+by its dependency; when the dependency is autoloaded, the executable will be in the
+PATH. Similarly for scripting languages such as Python, packages and their dependencies
+have to be loaded together.
+
+Autoloading is enabled by default for Lmod and Environment Modules. The former
+has builtin support for through the ``depends_on`` function. The latter uses
+``module load`` statement to load and track dependencies.
+
+Autoloading can also be enabled conditionally:
 
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
-  modules:
-    my-module-set:
-      tcl:
-        defaults:
-        - gcc@10.2.1
-        - hdf5@1.2.10+mpi+hl%gcc
+    modules:
+      default:
+        tcl:
+          all:
+            autoload: none
+          ^python:
+            autoload: direct
 
-These defaults may be arbitrarily specific. For any package that
-satisfies a default, Spack will generate the module file in the
-appropriate path, and will generate a default symlink to the module
-file as well.
+The configuration file above will produce module files that will
+load their direct dependencies if the package installed depends on ``python``.
+The allowed values for the ``autoload`` statement are either ``none``,
+``direct`` or ``all``.
 
-.. warning::
-  If Spack is configured to generate multiple default packages in the
-  same directory, the last modulefile to be generated will be the
-  default module.
-
-.. _maintaining-module-files:
+.. note::
+  Tcl prerequisites
+     In the ``tcl`` section of the configuration file it is possible to use
+     the ``prerequisites`` directive that accepts the same values as
+     ``autoload``. It will produce module files that have a ``prereq``
+     statement, which autoloads dependencies on Environment Modules when its
+     ``auto_handling`` configuration option is enabled. If Environment Modules
+     is installed with Spack, ``auto_handling`` is enabled by default starting
+     version 4.2. Otherwise it is enabled by default since version 5.0.
 
 ------------------------
 Maintaining Module Files

lib/spack/docs/packages_yaml.rst

@@ -1,673 +0,0 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
-   Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
-
-   SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
-
-
-.. _packages-config:
-
-================================
-Package Settings (packages.yaml)
-================================
-
-Spack allows you to customize how your software is built through the
-``packages.yaml`` file.  Using it, you can make Spack prefer particular
-implementations of virtual dependencies (e.g., MPI or BLAS/LAPACK),
-or you can make it prefer to build with particular compilers.  You can
-also tell Spack to use *external* software installations already
-present on your system.
-
-At a high level, the ``packages.yaml`` file is structured like this:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     package1:
-       # settings for package1
-     package2:
-       # settings for package2
-     # ...
-     all:
-       # settings that apply to all packages.
-
-So you can either set build preferences specifically for *one* package,
-or you can specify that certain settings should apply to *all* packages.
-The types of settings you can customize are described in detail below.
-
-Spack's build defaults are in the default
-``etc/spack/defaults/packages.yaml`` file.  You can override them in
-``~/.spack/packages.yaml`` or ``etc/spack/packages.yaml``. For more
-details on how this works, see :ref:`configuration-scopes`.
-
-.. _sec-external-packages:
-
------------------
-External Packages
------------------
-
-Spack can be configured to use externally-installed
-packages rather than building its own packages. This may be desirable
-if machines ship with system packages, such as a customized MPI
-that should be used instead of Spack building its own MPI.
-
-External packages are configured through the ``packages.yaml`` file.
-Here's an example of an external configuration:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     openmpi:
-       externals:
-       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
-         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3
-       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64+debug"
-         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3-debug
-       - spec: "openmpi@1.6.5%intel@10.1 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
-         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.6.5-intel
-
-This example lists three installations of OpenMPI, one built with GCC,
-one built with GCC and debug information, and another built with Intel.
-If Spack is asked to build a package that uses one of these MPIs as a
-dependency, it will use the pre-installed OpenMPI in
-the given directory. Note that the specified path is the top-level
-install prefix, not the ``bin`` subdirectory.
-
-``packages.yaml`` can also be used to specify modules to load instead
-of the installation prefixes.  The following example says that module
-``CMake/3.7.2`` provides cmake version 3.7.2.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   cmake:
-     externals:
-     - spec: cmake@3.7.2
-       modules:
-       - CMake/3.7.2
-
-Each ``packages.yaml`` begins with a ``packages:`` attribute, followed
-by a list of package names.  To specify externals, add an ``externals:``
-attribute under the package name, which lists externals.
-Each external should specify a ``spec:`` string that should be as
-well-defined as reasonably possible.  If a
-package lacks a spec component, such as missing a compiler or
-package version, then Spack will guess the missing component based
-on its most-favored packages, and it may guess incorrectly.
-
-Each package version and compiler listed in an external should
-have entries in Spack's packages and compiler configuration, even
-though the package and compiler may not ever be built.
-
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Extra attributes for external packages
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Sometimes external packages require additional attributes to be used
-effectively. This information can be defined on a per-package basis
-and stored in the ``extra_attributes`` section of the external package
-configuration. In addition to per-package information, this section
-can be used to define environment modifications to be performed
-whenever the package is used. For example, if an external package is
-built without ``rpath`` support, it may require ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH``
-settings to find its dependencies. This could be configured as
-follows:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     mpich:
-       externals:
-       - spec: mpich@3.3 %clang@12.0.0 +hwloc
-         prefix: /path/to/mpich
-         extra_attributes:
-           environment:
-             prepend_path:
-               LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /path/to/hwloc/lib64
-
-See :ref:`configuration_environment_variables` for more information on
-how to configure environment modifications in Spack config files.
-
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Prevent packages from being built from sources
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Adding an external spec in ``packages.yaml`` allows Spack to use an external location,
-but it does not prevent Spack from building packages from sources. In the above example,
-Spack might choose for many valid reasons to start building and linking with the
-latest version of OpenMPI rather than continue using the pre-installed OpenMPI versions.
-
-To prevent this, the ``packages.yaml`` configuration also allows packages
-to be flagged as non-buildable.  The previous example could be modified to
-be:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     openmpi:
-       externals:
-       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
-         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3
-       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64+debug"
-         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3-debug
-       - spec: "openmpi@1.6.5%intel@10.1 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
-         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.6.5-intel
-       buildable: False
-
-The addition of the ``buildable`` flag tells Spack that it should never build
-its own version of OpenMPI from sources, and it will instead always rely on a pre-built
-OpenMPI.
-
-.. note::
-
-   If ``concretizer:reuse`` is on (see :ref:`concretizer-options` for more information on that flag)
-   pre-built specs include specs already available from a local store, an upstream store, a registered
-   buildcache or specs marked as externals in ``packages.yaml``. If ``concretizer:reuse`` is off, only
-   external specs in ``packages.yaml`` are included in the list of pre-built specs.
-
-If an external module is specified as not buildable, then Spack will load the
-external module into the build environment which can be used for linking.
-
-The ``buildable`` does not need to be paired with external packages.
-It could also be used alone to forbid packages that may be
-buggy or otherwise undesirable.
-
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Non-buildable virtual packages
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Virtual packages in Spack can also be specified as not buildable, and
-external implementations can be provided. In the example above,
-OpenMPI is configured as not buildable, but Spack will often prefer
-other MPI implementations over the externally available OpenMPI. Spack
-can be configured with every MPI provider not buildable individually,
-but more conveniently:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     mpi:
-       buildable: False
-     openmpi:
-       externals:
-       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
-         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3
-       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64+debug"
-         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3-debug
-       - spec: "openmpi@1.6.5%intel@10.1 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
-         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.6.5-intel
-
-Spack can then use any of the listed external implementations of MPI
-to satisfy a dependency, and will choose depending on the compiler and
-architecture.
-
-In cases where the concretizer is configured to reuse specs, and other ``mpi`` providers
-(available via stores or buildcaches) are not wanted, Spack can be configured to require
-specs matching only the available externals:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     mpi:
-       buildable: False
-       require:
-       - one_of: [
-           "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64",
-           "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64+debug",
-           "openmpi@1.6.5%intel@10.1 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
-         ]
-     openmpi:
-       externals:
-       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
-         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3
-       - spec: "openmpi@1.4.3%gcc@4.4.7 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64+debug"
-         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.4.3-debug
-       - spec: "openmpi@1.6.5%intel@10.1 arch=linux-debian7-x86_64"
-         prefix: /opt/openmpi-1.6.5-intel
-
-This configuration prevents any spec using MPI and originating from stores or buildcaches to be reused,
-unless it matches the requirements under ``packages:mpi:require``. For more information on requirements see
-:ref:`package-requirements`.
-
-.. _cmd-spack-external-find:
-
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Automatically Find External Packages
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-You can run the :ref:`spack external find <spack-external-find>` command
-to search for system-provided packages and add them to ``packages.yaml``.
-After running this command your ``packages.yaml`` may include new entries:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     cmake:
-       externals:
-       - spec: cmake@3.17.2
-         prefix: /usr
-
-Generally this is useful for detecting a small set of commonly-used packages;
-for now this is generally limited to finding build-only dependencies.
-Specific limitations include:
-
-* Packages are not discoverable by default: For a package to be
-  discoverable with ``spack external find``, it needs to add special
-  logic. See :ref:`here <make-package-findable>` for more details.
-* The logic does not search through module files, it can only detect
-  packages with executables defined in ``PATH``; you can help Spack locate
-  externals which use module files by loading any associated modules for
-  packages that you want Spack to know about before running
-  ``spack external find``.
-* Spack does not overwrite existing entries in the package configuration:
-  If there is an external defined for a spec at any configuration scope,
-  then Spack will not add a new external entry (``spack config blame packages``
-  can help locate all external entries).
-
-.. _package-requirements:
-
---------------------
-Package Requirements
---------------------
-
-Spack can be configured to always use certain compilers, package
-versions, and variants during concretization through package
-requirements.
-
-Package requirements are useful when you find yourself repeatedly
-specifying the same constraints on the command line, and wish that
-Spack respects these constraints whether you mention them explicitly
-or not. Another use case is specifying constraints that should apply
-to all root specs in an environment, without having to repeat the
-constraint everywhere.
-
-Apart from that, requirements config is more flexible than constraints
-on the command line, because it can specify constraints on packages
-*when they occur* as a dependency. In contrast, on the command line it
-is not possible to specify constraints on dependencies while also keeping
-those dependencies optional.
-
-.. seealso::
-
-   FAQ: :ref:`Why does Spack pick particular versions and variants? <faq-concretizer-precedence>`
-
-
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Requirements syntax
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-The package requirements configuration is specified in ``packages.yaml``,
-keyed by package name and expressed using the Spec syntax. In the simplest
-case you can specify attributes that you always want the package to have
-by providing a single spec string to ``require``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     libfabric:
-       require: "@1.13.2"
-
-In the above example, ``libfabric`` will always build with version 1.13.2. If you
-need to compose multiple configuration scopes ``require`` accepts a list of
-strings:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     libfabric:
-       require:
-       - "@1.13.2"
-       - "%gcc"
-
-In this case ``libfabric`` will always build with version 1.13.2 **and** using GCC
-as a compiler.
-
-For more complex use cases, require accepts also a list of objects. These objects
-must have either a ``any_of`` or a ``one_of`` field, containing a list of spec strings,
-and they can optionally have a ``when`` and a ``message`` attribute:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     openmpi:
-       require:
-       - any_of: ["@4.1.5", "%gcc"]
-         message: "in this example only 4.1.5 can build with other compilers"
-
-``any_of`` is a list of specs. One of those specs must be satisfied
-and it is also allowed for the concretized spec to match more than one.
-In the above example, that means you could build ``openmpi@4.1.5%gcc``,
-``openmpi@4.1.5%clang`` or ``openmpi@3.9%gcc``, but
-not ``openmpi@3.9%clang``.
-
-If a custom message is provided, and the requirement is not satisfiable,
-Spack will print the custom error message:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-   $ spack spec openmpi@3.9%clang
-   ==> Error: in this example only 4.1.5 can build with other compilers
-
-We could express a similar requirement using the ``when`` attribute:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     openmpi:
-       require:
-       - any_of: ["%gcc"]
-         when: "@:4.1.4"
-         message: "in this example only 4.1.5 can build with other compilers"
-
-In the example above, if the version turns out to be 4.1.4 or less, we require the compiler to be GCC.
-For readability, Spack also allows a ``spec`` key accepting a string when there is only a single
-constraint:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     openmpi:
-       require:
-       - spec: "%gcc"
-         when: "@:4.1.4"
-         message: "in this example only 4.1.5 can build with other compilers"
-
-This code snippet and the one before it are semantically equivalent.
-
-Finally, instead of ``any_of`` you can use ``one_of`` which also takes a list of specs. The final
-concretized spec must match one and only one of them:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     mpich:
-       require:
-       - one_of: ["+cuda", "+rocm"]
-
-In the example above, that means you could build ``mpich+cuda`` or ``mpich+rocm`` but not ``mpich+cuda+rocm``.
-
-.. note::
-
-   For ``any_of`` and ``one_of``, the order of specs indicates a
-   preference: items that appear earlier in the list are preferred
-   (note that these preferences can be ignored in favor of others).
-
-.. note::
-
-   When using a conditional requirement, Spack is allowed to actively avoid the triggering
-   condition (the ``when=...`` spec) if that leads to a concrete spec with better scores in
-   the optimization criteria. To check the current optimization criteria and their
-   priorities you can run ``spack solve zlib``.
-
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Setting default requirements
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-You can also set default requirements for all packages under ``all``
-like this:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     all:
-       require: '%clang'
-
-which means every spec will be required to use ``clang`` as a compiler.
-
-Requirements on variants for all packages are possible too, but note that they
-are only enforced for those packages that define these variants, otherwise they
-are disregarded. For example:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     all:
-       require:
-       - "+shared"
-       - "+cuda"
-
-will just enforce ``+shared`` on ``zlib``, which has a boolean ``shared`` variant but
-no ``cuda`` variant.
-
-Constraints in a single spec literal are always considered as a whole, so in a case like:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     all:
-       require: "+shared +cuda"
-
-the default requirement will be enforced only if a package has both a ``cuda`` and
-a ``shared`` variant, and will never be partially enforced.
-
-Finally, ``all`` represents a *default set of requirements* -
-if there are specific package requirements, then the default requirements
-under ``all`` are disregarded. For example, with a configuration like this:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     all:
-       require:
-       - 'build_type=Debug'
-       - '%clang'
-     cmake:
-       require:
-       - 'build_type=Debug'
-       - '%gcc'
-
-Spack requires ``cmake`` to use ``gcc`` and all other nodes (including ``cmake``
-dependencies) to use ``clang``. If enforcing ``build_type=Debug`` is needed also
-on ``cmake``, it must be repeated in the specific ``cmake`` requirements.
-
-
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Setting requirements on virtual specs
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-A requirement on a virtual spec applies whenever that virtual is present in the DAG.
-This can be useful for fixing which virtual provider you want to use:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     mpi:
-       require: 'mvapich2 %gcc'
-
-With the configuration above the only allowed ``mpi`` provider is ``mvapich2 %gcc``.
-
-Requirements on the virtual spec and on the specific provider are both applied, if
-present. For instance with a configuration like:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     mpi:
-       require: 'mvapich2 %gcc'
-     mvapich2:
-       require: '~cuda'
-
-you will use ``mvapich2~cuda %gcc`` as an ``mpi`` provider.
-
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Conflicts and strong preferences
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-If the semantic of requirements is too strong, you can also express "strong preferences" and "conflicts"
-from configuration files:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     all:
-       prefer:
-       - '%clang'
-       conflict:
-       - '+shared'
-
-The ``prefer`` and ``conflict`` sections can be used whenever a ``require`` section is allowed.
-The argument is always a list of constraints, and each constraint can be either a simple string,
-or a more complex object:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     all:
-       conflict:
-       - spec: '%clang'
-         when: 'target=x86_64_v3'
-         message: 'reason why clang cannot be used'
-
-The ``spec`` attribute is mandatory, while both ``when`` and ``message`` are optional.
-
-.. note::
-
-   Requirements allow for expressing both "strong preferences" and "conflicts".
-   The syntax for doing so, though, may not be immediately clear. For
-   instance, if we want to prevent any package from using ``%clang``, we can set:
-
-   .. code-block:: yaml
-
-      packages:
-        all:
-          require:
-          - one_of: ['%clang', '@:']
-
-   Since only one of the requirements must hold, and ``@:`` is always true, the rule above is
-   equivalent to a conflict. For "strong preferences" we need to substitute the ``one_of`` policy
-   with ``any_of``.
-
-
-
-.. _package-preferences:
-
--------------------
-Package Preferences
--------------------
-
-In some cases package requirements can be too strong, and package
-preferences are the better option. Package preferences do not impose
-constraints on packages for particular versions or variants values,
-they rather only set defaults. The concretizer is free to change
-them if it must, due to other constraints, and also prefers reusing
-installed packages over building new ones that are a better match for
-preferences.
-
-.. seealso::
-
-   FAQ: :ref:`Why does Spack pick particular versions and variants? <faq-concretizer-precedence>`
-
-
-Most package preferences (``compilers``, ``target`` and ``providers``)
-can only be set globally under the ``all`` section of ``packages.yaml``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     all:
-       compiler: [gcc@12.2.0, clang@12:, oneapi@2023:]
-       target: [x86_64_v3]
-       providers:
-         mpi: [mvapich2, mpich, openmpi]
-
-These preferences override Spack's default and effectively reorder priorities
-when looking for the best compiler, target or virtual package provider. Each
-preference takes an ordered list of spec constraints, with earlier entries in
-the list being preferred over later entries.
-
-In the example above all packages prefer to be compiled with ``gcc@12.2.0``,
-to target the ``x86_64_v3`` microarchitecture and to use ``mvapich2`` if they
-depend on ``mpi``.
-
-The ``variants`` and ``version`` preferences can be set under
-package specific sections of the ``packages.yaml`` file:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   packages:
-     opencv:
-       variants: +debug
-     gperftools:
-       version: [2.2, 2.4, 2.3]
-
-In this case, the preference for ``opencv`` is to build with debug options, while
-``gperftools`` prefers version 2.2 over 2.4.
-
-Any preference can be overwritten on the command line if explicitly requested.
-
-Preferences cannot overcome explicit constraints, as they only set a preferred
-ordering among homogeneous attribute values. Going back to the example, if
-``gperftools@2.3:`` was requested, then Spack will install version 2.4
-since the most preferred version 2.2 is prohibited by the version constraint.
-
-.. _package_permissions:
-
--------------------
-Package Permissions
--------------------
-
-Spack can be configured to assign permissions to the files installed
-by a package.
-
-In the ``packages.yaml`` file under ``permissions``, the attributes
-``read``, ``write``, and ``group`` control the package
-permissions. These attributes can be set per-package, or for all
-packages under ``all``. If permissions are set under ``all`` and for a
-specific package, the package-specific settings take precedence.
-
-The ``read`` and ``write`` attributes take one of ``user``, ``group``,
-and ``world``.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  packages:
-    all:
-      permissions:
-        write: group
-        group: spack
-    my_app:
-      permissions:
-        read: group
-        group: my_team
-
-The permissions settings describe the broadest level of access to
-installations of the specified packages. The execute permissions of
-the file are set to the same level as read permissions for those files
-that are executable. The default setting for ``read`` is ``world``,
-and for ``write`` is ``user``. In the example above, installations of
-``my_app`` will be installed with user and group permissions but no
-world permissions, and owned by the group ``my_team``. All other
-packages will be installed with user and group write privileges, and
-world read privileges. Those packages will be owned by the group
-``spack``.
-
-The ``group`` attribute assigns a Unix-style group to a package. All
-files installed by the package will be owned by the assigned group,
-and the sticky group bit will be set on the install prefix and all
-directories inside the install prefix. This will ensure that even
-manually placed files within the install prefix are owned by the
-assigned group. If no group is assigned, Spack will allow the OS
-default behavior to go as expected.
-
-.. _assigning-package-attributes:
-
-----------------------------
-Assigning Package Attributes
-----------------------------
-
-You can assign class-level attributes in the configuration:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  packages:
-    mpileaks:
-      package_attributes:
-        # Override existing attributes
-        url: http://www.somewhereelse.com/mpileaks-1.0.tar.gz
-        # ... or add new ones
-        x: 1
-
-Attributes set this way will be accessible to any method executed
-in the package.py file (e.g. the ``install()`` method). Values for these
-attributes may be any value parseable by yaml.
-
-These can only be applied to specific packages, not "all" or
-virtual packages.

lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ for details):
 .. code-block:: python
    :linenos:
 
-   # Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+   # Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
    #
    # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -2337,7 +2337,7 @@ window while a batch job is running ``spack install`` on the same or
 overlapping dependencies without any process trying to re-do the work of
 another.
 
-For example, if you are using Slurm, you could launch an installation
+For example, if you are using SLURM, you could launch an installation
 of ``mpich`` using the following command:
 
 .. code-block:: console
@@ -4379,16 +4379,10 @@ implementation was selected for this build:
    elif "mvapich" in spec:
        configure_args.append("--with-mvapich")
 
-It's also a bit more concise than satisfies.
-
-.. note::
-
-   The ``satisfies()`` method tests whether this spec has, at least, all the constraints of the argument spec,
-   while ``in`` tests whether a spec or any of its dependencies satisfy the provided spec.
-
-   If the provided spec is anonymous (e.g., ":1.2:", "+shared") or has the
-   same name as the spec being checked, then ``in`` works the same as
-   ``satisfies()``; however, use of ``satisfies()`` is more intuitive.
+It's also a bit more concise than satisfies.  The difference between
+the two functions is that ``satisfies()`` tests whether spec
+constraints overlap at all, while ``in`` tests whether a spec or any
+of its dependencies satisfy the provided spec.
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Architecture specifiers
@@ -5290,7 +5284,7 @@ installed example.
            example = which(self.prefix.bin.example)
            example()
 
-Output showing the identification of each test part after running the tests
+Output showing the identification of each test part after runnig the tests
 is illustrated below.
 
 .. code-block:: console
@@ -5787,7 +5781,7 @@ with those implemented in the package itself.
    * - `Cxx
        <https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/cxx>`_
      - Compiles and runs several ``hello`` programs
-   * - `Fortran
+   * - `Fortan
        <https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/fortran>`_
      - Compiles and runs ``hello`` programs (``F`` and ``f90``)
    * - `Mpi
@@ -6979,18 +6973,3 @@ you probably care most about are:
 You may also care about `license exceptions
 <https://spdx.org/licenses/exceptions-index.html>`_ that use the ``WITH`` operator,
 e.g. ``Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception``.
-
-Many of the licenses that are currently in the spack repositories have been
-automatically determined. While this is great for bulk adding license
-information and is most likely correct, there are sometimes edge cases that
-require manual intervention. To determine which licenses are validated and
-which are not, there is the `checked_by` parameter in the license directive:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-   license("<license>", when="<when>", checked_by="<github username>")
-
-When you have validated a github license, either when doing so explicitly or
-as part of packaging a new package, please set the `checked_by` parameter
-to your Github username to signal that the license has been manually
-verified.

lib/spack/docs/pipelines.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ generated by ``spack ci generate``.  You also want your generated rebuild jobs
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
    spack:
-     # ...
+     ...
      ci:
        pipeline-gen:
        - build-job:

lib/spack/docs/replace_conda_homebrew.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/docs/repositories.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ experimental software separately from the built-in repository. Spack
 allows you to configure local repositories using either the
 ``repos.yaml`` or the ``spack repo`` command.
 
-A package repository is a directory structured like this::
+A package repository a directory structured like this::
 
   repo/
       repo.yaml

lib/spack/docs/requirements.txt

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 sphinx==7.2.6
 sphinxcontrib-programoutput==0.17
 sphinx_design==0.5.0
-sphinx-rtd-theme==2.0.0
-python-levenshtein==0.25.0
-docutils==0.20.1
-pygments==2.17.2
-urllib3==2.2.1
-pytest==8.0.2
-isort==5.13.2
-black==24.2.0
-flake8==7.0.0
-mypy==1.8.0
+sphinx-rtd-theme==1.3.0
+python-levenshtein==0.23.0
+docutils==0.18.1
+pygments==2.16.1
+urllib3==2.0.7
+pytest==7.4.3
+isort==5.12.0
+black==23.10.1
+flake8==6.1.0
+mypy==1.6.1

lib/spack/docs/signing.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+.. Copyright 2013-2022 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
    Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Reputational Key
 ----------------
 
 The Reputational Key is the public facing key used to sign complete groups of
-development and release packages. Only one key pair exists in this class of
+development and release packages. Only one key pair exsits in this class of
 keys. In contrast to the Intermediate CI Key the Reputational Key *should* be
 used to verify package integrity. At the end of develop and release pipeline a
 final pipeline job pulls down all signed package metadata built by the pipeline,
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ Internal Implementation
 
 The technical implementation of the pipeline signing process includes components
 defined in Amazon Web Services, the Kubernetes cluster, at affilicated
-institutions, and the GitLab/GitLab Runner deployment. We present the technical
+institutions, and the GitLab/GitLab Runner deployment. We present the techincal
 implementation in two interdependent sections. The first addresses how secrets
 are managed through the lifecycle of a develop or release pipeline. The second
 section describes how Gitlab Runner and pipelines are configured and managed to
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ infrastructure.
 -----------------------
 
 Multiple intermediate CI signing keys exist, one Intermediate CI Key for jobs
-run in AWS, and one key for each affiliated institution (e.g. University of
+run in AWS, and one key for each affiliated institution (e.g. Univerity of
 Oregon). Here we describe how the Intermediate CI Key is managed in AWS:
 
 The Intermediate CI Key (including the Signing Intermediate CI Private Key is
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ contains an ASCII-armored export of just the *public* components of the
 Reputational Key. This secret also contains the *public* components of each of
 the affiliated institutions' Intermediate CI Key. These are potentially needed
 to verify dependent packages which may have been found in the public mirror or
-built by a protected job running on an affiliated institution's infrastructure
+built by a protected job running on an affiliated institution's infrastrcuture
 in an earlier stage of the pipeline.
 
 Procedurally the ``spack-intermediate-ci-signing-key`` secret is used in

lib/spack/docs/spack.yaml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/env/cc

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh -f
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034  # evals in this script fool shellcheck
 #
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/external/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/llnl/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/llnl/path.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/llnl/string.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/llnl/url.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/llnl/util/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/llnl/util/argparsewriter.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/llnl/util/filesystem.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ def polite_path(components: Iterable[str]):
 @memoized
 def _polite_antipattern():
     # A regex of all the characters we don't want in a filename
-    return re.compile(r"[^A-Za-z0-9_+.-]")
+    return re.compile(r"[^A-Za-z0-9_.-]")
 
 
 def polite_filename(filename: str) -> str:
@@ -920,34 +920,28 @@ def get_filetype(path_name):
     return output.strip()
 
 
-def has_shebang(path):
-    """Returns whether a path has a shebang line. Returns False if the file cannot be opened."""
-    try:
-        with open(path, "rb") as f:
-            return f.read(2) == b"#!"
-    except OSError:
-        return False
-
-
 @system_path_filter
 def is_nonsymlink_exe_with_shebang(path):
-    """Returns whether the path is an executable regular file with a shebang. Returns False too
-    when the path is a symlink to a script, and also when the file cannot be opened."""
+    """
+    Returns whether the path is an executable script with a shebang.
+    Return False when the path is a *symlink* to an executable script.
+    """
     try:
         st = os.lstat(path)
-    except OSError:
-        return False
+        # Should not be a symlink
+        if stat.S_ISLNK(st.st_mode):
+            return False
 
-    # Should not be a symlink
-    if stat.S_ISLNK(st.st_mode):
-        return False
+        # Should be executable
+        if not st.st_mode & (stat.S_IXUSR | stat.S_IXGRP | stat.S_IXOTH):
+            return False
 
-    # Should be executable
-    if not st.st_mode & (stat.S_IXUSR | stat.S_IXGRP | stat.S_IXOTH):
+        # Should start with a shebang
+        with open(path, "rb") as f:
+            return f.read(2) == b"#!"
+    except (IOError, OSError):
         return False
 
-    return has_shebang(path)
-
 
 @system_path_filter(arg_slice=slice(1))
 def chgrp_if_not_world_writable(path, group):
@@ -1240,47 +1234,6 @@ def get_single_file(directory):
     return fnames[0]
 
 
-@system_path_filter
-def windows_sfn(path: os.PathLike):
-    """Returns 8.3 Filename (SFN) representation of
-    path
-
-    8.3 Filenames (SFN or short filename) is a file
-    naming convention used prior to Win95 that Windows
-    still (and will continue to) support. This convention
-    caps filenames at 8 characters, and most importantly
-    does not allow for spaces in addition to other specifications.
-    The scheme is generally the same as a normal Windows
-    file scheme, but all spaces are removed and the filename
-    is capped at 6 characters. The remaining characters are
-    replaced with ~N where N is the number file in a directory
-    that a given file represents i.e. Program Files and Program Files (x86)
-    would be PROGRA~1 and PROGRA~2 respectively.
-    Further, all file/directory names are all caps (although modern Windows
-    is case insensitive in practice).
-    Conversion is accomplished by fileapi.h GetShortPathNameW
-
-    Returns paths in 8.3 Filename form
-
-    Note: this method is a no-op on Linux
-
-    Args:
-        path: Path to be transformed into SFN (8.3 filename) format
-    """
-    # This should not be run-able on linux/macos
-    if sys.platform != "win32":
-        return path
-    path = str(path)
-    import ctypes
-
-    k32 = ctypes.WinDLL("kernel32", use_last_error=True)
-    # stub Windows types TCHAR[LENGTH]
-    TCHAR_arr = ctypes.c_wchar * len(path)
-    ret_str = TCHAR_arr()
-    k32.GetShortPathNameW(path, ret_str, len(path))
-    return ret_str.value
-
-
 @contextmanager
 def temp_cwd():
     tmp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
@@ -1424,89 +1377,120 @@ def traverse_tree(
         yield (source_path, dest_path)
 
 
+def lexists_islink_isdir(path):
+    """Computes the tuple (lexists(path), islink(path), isdir(path)) in a minimal
+    number of stat calls on unix. Use os.path and symlink.islink methods for windows."""
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        if not os.path.lexists(path):
+            return False, False, False
+        return os.path.lexists(path), islink(path), os.path.isdir(path)
+    # First try to lstat, so we know if it's a link or not.
+    try:
+        lst = os.lstat(path)
+    except (IOError, OSError):
+        return False, False, False
+
+    is_link = stat.S_ISLNK(lst.st_mode)
+
+    # Check whether file is a dir.
+    if not is_link:
+        is_dir = stat.S_ISDIR(lst.st_mode)
+        return True, is_link, is_dir
+
+    # Check whether symlink points to a dir.
+    try:
+        st = os.stat(path)
+        is_dir = stat.S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)
+    except (IOError, OSError):
+        # Dangling symlink (i.e. it lexists but not exists)
+        is_dir = False
+
+    return True, is_link, is_dir
+
+
 class BaseDirectoryVisitor:
     """Base class and interface for :py:func:`visit_directory_tree`."""
 
-    def visit_file(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> None:
+    def visit_file(self, root, rel_path, depth):
         """Handle the non-symlink file at ``os.path.join(root, rel_path)``
 
         Parameters:
-            root: root directory
-            rel_path: relative path to current file from ``root``
+            root (str): root directory
+            rel_path (str): relative path to current file from ``root``
             depth (int): depth of current file from the ``root`` directory"""
         pass
 
-    def visit_symlinked_file(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth) -> None:
-        """Handle the symlink to a file at ``os.path.join(root, rel_path)``. Note: ``rel_path`` is
-        the location of the symlink, not to what it is pointing to. The symlink may be dangling.
+    def visit_symlinked_file(self, root, rel_path, depth):
+        """Handle the symlink to a file at ``os.path.join(root, rel_path)``.
+        Note: ``rel_path`` is the location of the symlink, not to what it is
+        pointing to. The symlink may be dangling.
 
         Parameters:
-            root: root directory
-            rel_path: relative path to current symlink from ``root``
-            depth: depth of current symlink from the ``root`` directory"""
+            root (str): root directory
+            rel_path (str): relative path to current symlink from ``root``
+            depth (int): depth of current symlink from the ``root`` directory"""
         pass
 
-    def before_visit_dir(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> bool:
+    def before_visit_dir(self, root, rel_path, depth):
         """Return True from this function to recurse into the directory at
         os.path.join(root, rel_path). Return False in order not to recurse further.
 
         Parameters:
-            root: root directory
-            rel_path: relative path to current directory from ``root``
-            depth: depth of current directory from the ``root`` directory
+            root (str): root directory
+            rel_path (str): relative path to current directory from ``root``
+            depth (int): depth of current directory from the ``root`` directory
 
         Returns:
             bool: ``True`` when the directory should be recursed into. ``False`` when
             not"""
         return False
 
-    def before_visit_symlinked_dir(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> bool:
-        """Return ``True`` to recurse into the symlinked directory and ``False`` in order not to.
-        Note: ``rel_path`` is the path to the symlink itself. Following symlinked directories
-        blindly can cause infinite recursion due to cycles.
+    def before_visit_symlinked_dir(self, root, rel_path, depth):
+        """Return ``True`` to recurse into the symlinked directory and ``False`` in
+        order not to. Note: ``rel_path`` is the path to the symlink itself.
+        Following symlinked directories blindly can cause infinite recursion due to
+        cycles.
 
         Parameters:
-            root: root directory
-            rel_path: relative path to current symlink from ``root``
-            depth: depth of current symlink from the ``root`` directory
+            root (str): root directory
+            rel_path (str): relative path to current symlink from ``root``
+            depth (int): depth of current symlink from the ``root`` directory
 
         Returns:
             bool: ``True`` when the directory should be recursed into. ``False`` when
             not"""
         return False
 
-    def after_visit_dir(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> None:
-        """Called after recursion into ``rel_path`` finished. This function is not called when
-        ``rel_path`` was not recursed into.
+    def after_visit_dir(self, root, rel_path, depth):
+        """Called after recursion into ``rel_path`` finished. This function is not
+        called when ``rel_path`` was not recursed into.
 
         Parameters:
-            root: root directory
-            rel_path: relative path to current directory from ``root``
-            depth: depth of current directory from the ``root`` directory"""
+            root (str): root directory
+            rel_path (str): relative path to current directory from ``root``
+            depth (int): depth of current directory from the ``root`` directory"""
         pass
 
-    def after_visit_symlinked_dir(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> None:
-        """Called after recursion into ``rel_path`` finished. This function is not called when
-        ``rel_path`` was not recursed into.
+    def after_visit_symlinked_dir(self, root, rel_path, depth):
+        """Called after recursion into ``rel_path`` finished. This function is not
+        called when ``rel_path`` was not recursed into.
 
         Parameters:
-            root: root directory
-            rel_path: relative path to current symlink from ``root``
-            depth: depth of current symlink from the ``root`` directory"""
+            root (str): root directory
+            rel_path (str): relative path to current symlink from ``root``
+            depth (int): depth of current symlink from the ``root`` directory"""
         pass
 
 
-def visit_directory_tree(
-    root: str, visitor: BaseDirectoryVisitor, rel_path: str = "", depth: int = 0
-):
-    """Recurses the directory root depth-first through a visitor pattern using the interface from
-    :py:class:`BaseDirectoryVisitor`
+def visit_directory_tree(root, visitor, rel_path="", depth=0):
+    """Recurses the directory root depth-first through a visitor pattern using the
+    interface from :py:class:`BaseDirectoryVisitor`
 
     Parameters:
-        root: path of directory to recurse into
-        visitor: what visitor to use
-        rel_path: current relative path from the root
-        depth: current depth from the root
+        root (str): path of directory to recurse into
+        visitor (BaseDirectoryVisitor): what visitor to use
+        rel_path (str): current relative path from the root
+        depth (str): current depth from the root
     """
     dir = os.path.join(root, rel_path)
     dir_entries = sorted(os.scandir(dir), key=lambda d: d.name)
@@ -1514,19 +1498,26 @@ def visit_directory_tree(
     for f in dir_entries:
         rel_child = os.path.join(rel_path, f.name)
         islink = f.is_symlink()
-        # On Windows, symlinks to directories are distinct from symlinks to files, and it is
-        # possible to create a broken symlink to a directory (e.g. using os.symlink without
-        # `target_is_directory=True`), invoking `isdir` on a symlink on Windows that is broken in
-        # this manner will result in an error. In this case we can work around the issue by reading
-        # the target and resolving the directory ourselves
+        # On Windows, symlinks to directories are distinct from
+        # symlinks to files, and it is possible to create a
+        # broken symlink to a directory (e.g. using os.symlink
+        # without `target_is_directory=True`), invoking `isdir`
+        # on a symlink on Windows that is broken in this manner
+        # will result in an error. In this case we can work around
+        # the issue by reading the target and resolving the
+        # directory ourselves
         try:
             isdir = f.is_dir()
         except OSError as e:
             if sys.platform == "win32" and hasattr(e, "winerror") and e.winerror == 5 and islink:
-                # if path is a symlink, determine destination and evaluate file vs directory
+                # if path is a symlink, determine destination and
+                # evaluate file vs directory
                 link_target = resolve_link_target_relative_to_the_link(f)
-                # link_target might be relative but resolve_link_target_relative_to_the_link
-                # will ensure that if so, that it is relative to the CWD and therefore makes sense
+                # link_target might be relative but
+                # resolve_link_target_relative_to_the_link
+                # will ensure that if so, that it is relative
+                # to the CWD and therefore
+                # makes sense
                 isdir = os.path.isdir(link_target)
             else:
                 raise e

lib/spack/llnl/util/lang.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -843,30 +843,6 @@ def __repr__(self):
         return repr(self.instance)
 
 
-def get_entry_points(*, group: str):
-    """Wrapper for ``importlib.metadata.entry_points``
-
-    Args:
-        group: entry points to select
-
-    Returns:
-        EntryPoints for ``group`` or empty list if unsupported
-    """
-
-    try:
-        import importlib.metadata  # type: ignore  # novermin
-    except ImportError:
-        return []
-
-    try:
-        return importlib.metadata.entry_points(group=group)
-    except TypeError:
-        # Prior to Python 3.10, entry_points accepted no parameters and always
-        # returned a dictionary of entry points, keyed by group.  See
-        # https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html#entry-points
-        return importlib.metadata.entry_points().get(group, [])
-
-
 def load_module_from_file(module_name, module_path):
     """Loads a python module from the path of the corresponding file.
 
@@ -1071,9 +1047,9 @@ def __bool__(self):
         """Whether any exceptions were handled."""
         return bool(self.exceptions)
 
-    def forward(self, context: str, base: type = BaseException) -> "GroupedExceptionForwarder":
+    def forward(self, context: str) -> "GroupedExceptionForwarder":
         """Return a contextmanager which extracts tracebacks and prefixes a message."""
-        return GroupedExceptionForwarder(context, self, base)
+        return GroupedExceptionForwarder(context, self)
 
     def _receive_forwarded(self, context: str, exc: Exception, tb: List[str]):
         self.exceptions.append((context, exc, tb))
@@ -1096,18 +1072,15 @@ class GroupedExceptionForwarder:
     """A contextmanager to capture exceptions and forward them to a
     GroupedExceptionHandler."""
 
-    def __init__(self, context: str, handler: GroupedExceptionHandler, base: type):
+    def __init__(self, context: str, handler: GroupedExceptionHandler):
         self._context = context
         self._handler = handler
-        self._base = base
 
     def __enter__(self):
         return None
 
     def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, tb):
         if exc_value is not None:
-            if not issubclass(exc_type, self._base):
-                return False
             self._handler._receive_forwarded(self._context, exc_value, traceback.format_tb(tb))
 
         # Suppress any exception from being re-raised:

lib/spack/llnl/util/link_tree.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 import filecmp
 import os
 import shutil
-from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
+from collections import OrderedDict
 
 import llnl.util.tty as tty
 from llnl.util.filesystem import BaseDirectoryVisitor, mkdirp, touch, traverse_tree
@@ -51,32 +51,32 @@ class SourceMergeVisitor(BaseDirectoryVisitor):
     - A list of merge conflicts in dst/
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, ignore: Optional[Callable[[str], bool]] = None):
+    def __init__(self, ignore=None):
         self.ignore = ignore if ignore is not None else lambda f: False
 
-        # When mapping <src root> to <dst root>/<projection>, we need to prepend the <projection>
-        # bit to the relative path in the destination dir.
-        self.projection: str = ""
+        # When mapping <src root> to <dst root>/<projection>, we need
+        # to prepend the <projection> bit to the relative path in the
+        # destination dir.
+        self.projection = ""
 
-        # Two files f and g conflict if they are not os.path.samefile(f, g) and they are both
-        # projected to the same destination file. These conflicts are not necessarily fatal, and
-        # can be resolved or ignored. For example <prefix>/LICENSE or
-        # <site-packages>/<namespace>/__init__.py conflicts can be ignored).
-        self.file_conflicts: List[MergeConflict] = []
+        # When a file blocks another file, the conflict can sometimes
+        # be resolved / ignored (e.g. <prefix>/LICENSE or
+        # or <site-packages>/<namespace>/__init__.py conflicts can be
+        # ignored).
+        self.file_conflicts = []
 
-        # When we have to create a dir where a file is, or a file where a dir is, we have fatal
-        # errors, listed here.
-        self.fatal_conflicts: List[MergeConflict] = []
+        # When we have to create a dir where a file is, or a file
+        # where a dir is, we have fatal errors, listed here.
+        self.fatal_conflicts = []
 
-        # What directories we have to make; this is an ordered dict, so that we have a fast lookup
-        # and can run mkdir in order.
-        self.directories: Dict[str, Tuple[str, str]] = {}
+        # What directories we have to make; this is an ordered set,
+        # so that we have a fast lookup and can run mkdir in order.
+        self.directories = OrderedDict()
 
-        # Files to link. Maps dst_rel to (src_root, src_rel). This is an ordered dict, where files
-        # are guaranteed to be grouped by src_root in the order they were visited.
-        self.files: Dict[str, Tuple[str, str]] = {}
+        # Files to link. Maps dst_rel to (src_root, src_rel)
+        self.files = OrderedDict()
 
-    def before_visit_dir(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> bool:
+    def before_visit_dir(self, root, rel_path, depth):
         """
         Register a directory if dst / rel_path is not blocked by a file or ignored.
         """
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ def before_visit_dir(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> bool:
             self.directories[proj_rel_path] = (root, rel_path)
             return True
 
-    def before_visit_symlinked_dir(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> bool:
+    def before_visit_symlinked_dir(self, root, rel_path, depth):
         """
         Replace symlinked dirs with actual directories when possible in low depths,
         otherwise handle it as a file (i.e. we link to the symlink).
@@ -136,56 +136,40 @@ def before_visit_symlinked_dir(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> bo
         self.visit_file(root, rel_path, depth)
         return False
 
-    def visit_file(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int, *, symlink: bool = False) -> None:
+    def visit_file(self, root, rel_path, depth):
         proj_rel_path = os.path.join(self.projection, rel_path)
 
         if self.ignore(rel_path):
             pass
         elif proj_rel_path in self.directories:
             # Can't create a file where a dir is; fatal error
+            src_a_root, src_a_relpath = self.directories[proj_rel_path]
             self.fatal_conflicts.append(
                 MergeConflict(
                     dst=proj_rel_path,
-                    src_a=os.path.join(*self.directories[proj_rel_path]),
+                    src_a=os.path.join(src_a_root, src_a_relpath),
                     src_b=os.path.join(root, rel_path),
                 )
             )
         elif proj_rel_path in self.files:
-            # When two files project to the same path, they conflict iff they are distinct.
-            # If they are the same (i.e. one links to the other), register regular files rather
-            # than symlinks. The reason is that in copy-type views, we need a copy of the actual
-            # file, not the symlink.
-
-            src_a = os.path.join(*self.files[proj_rel_path])
-            src_b = os.path.join(root, rel_path)
-
-            try:
-                samefile = os.path.samefile(src_a, src_b)
-            except OSError:
-                samefile = False
-
-            if not samefile:
-                # Distinct files produce a conflict.
-                self.file_conflicts.append(
-                    MergeConflict(dst=proj_rel_path, src_a=src_a, src_b=src_b)
+            # In some cases we can resolve file-file conflicts
+            src_a_root, src_a_relpath = self.files[proj_rel_path]
+            self.file_conflicts.append(
+                MergeConflict(
+                    dst=proj_rel_path,
+                    src_a=os.path.join(src_a_root, src_a_relpath),
+                    src_b=os.path.join(root, rel_path),
                 )
-                return
-
-            if not symlink:
-                # Remove the link in favor of the actual file. The del is necessary to maintain the
-                # order of the files dict, which is grouped by root.
-                del self.files[proj_rel_path]
-                self.files[proj_rel_path] = (root, rel_path)
-
+            )
         else:
             # Otherwise register this file to be linked.
             self.files[proj_rel_path] = (root, rel_path)
 
-    def visit_symlinked_file(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> None:
+    def visit_symlinked_file(self, root, rel_path, depth):
         # Treat symlinked files as ordinary files (without "dereferencing")
-        self.visit_file(root, rel_path, depth, symlink=True)
+        self.visit_file(root, rel_path, depth)
 
-    def set_projection(self, projection: str) -> None:
+    def set_projection(self, projection):
         self.projection = os.path.normpath(projection)
 
         # Todo, is this how to check in general for empty projection?
@@ -213,19 +197,24 @@ def set_projection(self, projection: str) -> None:
 
 
 class DestinationMergeVisitor(BaseDirectoryVisitor):
-    """DestinatinoMergeVisitor takes a SourceMergeVisitor and:
+    """DestinatinoMergeVisitor takes a SourceMergeVisitor
+    and:
 
-    a. registers additional conflicts when merging to the destination prefix
-    b. removes redundant mkdir operations when directories already exist in the destination prefix.
+    a. registers additional conflicts when merging
+       to the destination prefix
+    b. removes redundant mkdir operations when
+       directories already exist in the destination
+       prefix.
 
-    This also makes sure that symlinked directories in the target prefix will never be merged with
+    This also makes sure that symlinked directories
+    in the target prefix will never be merged with
     directories in the sources directories.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, source_merge_visitor: SourceMergeVisitor):
+    def __init__(self, source_merge_visitor):
         self.src = source_merge_visitor
 
-    def before_visit_dir(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> bool:
+    def before_visit_dir(self, root, rel_path, depth):
         # If destination dir is a file in a src dir, add a conflict,
         # and don't traverse deeper
         if rel_path in self.src.files:
@@ -247,7 +236,7 @@ def before_visit_dir(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> bool:
         # don't descend into it.
         return False
 
-    def before_visit_symlinked_dir(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> bool:
+    def before_visit_symlinked_dir(self, root, rel_path, depth):
         """
         Symlinked directories in the destination prefix should
         be seen as files; we should not accidentally merge
@@ -273,7 +262,7 @@ def before_visit_symlinked_dir(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> bo
         # Never descend into symlinked target dirs.
         return False
 
-    def visit_file(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> None:
+    def visit_file(self, root, rel_path, depth):
         # Can't merge a file if target already exists
         if rel_path in self.src.directories:
             src_a_root, src_a_relpath = self.src.directories[rel_path]
@@ -291,7 +280,7 @@ def visit_file(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> None:
                 )
             )
 
-    def visit_symlinked_file(self, root: str, rel_path: str, depth: int) -> None:
+    def visit_symlinked_file(self, root, rel_path, depth):
         # Treat symlinked files as ordinary files (without "dereferencing")
         self.visit_file(root, rel_path, depth)
 

lib/spack/llnl/util/lock.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/llnl/util/multiproc.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/llnl/util/symlink.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -189,7 +189,6 @@ def _windows_can_symlink() -> bool:
     import llnl.util.filesystem as fs
 
     fs.touchp(fpath)
-    fs.mkdirp(dpath)
 
     try:
         os.symlink(dpath, dlink)

lib/spack/llnl/util/tty/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/llnl/util/tty/colify.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/llnl/util/tty/color.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -204,23 +204,17 @@ def color_when(value):
 
 
 class match_to_ansi:
-    def __init__(self, color=True, enclose=False, zsh=False):
+    def __init__(self, color=True, enclose=False):
         self.color = _color_when_value(color)
         self.enclose = enclose
-        self.zsh = zsh
 
     def escape(self, s):
         """Returns a TTY escape sequence for a color"""
         if self.color:
-            if self.zsh:
-                result = rf"\e[0;{s}m"
-            else:
-                result = f"\033[{s}m"
-
             if self.enclose:
-                result = rf"\[{result}\]"
-
-            return result
+                return r"\[\033[%sm\]" % s
+            else:
+                return "\033[%sm" % s
         else:
             return ""
 
@@ -267,11 +261,9 @@ def colorize(string, **kwargs):
             codes, for output to non-console devices.
         enclose (bool): If True, enclose ansi color sequences with
             square brackets to prevent misestimation of terminal width.
-        zsh (bool): If True, use zsh ansi codes instead of bash ones (for variables like PS1)
     """
     color = _color_when_value(kwargs.get("color", get_color_when()))
-    zsh = kwargs.get("zsh", False)
-    string = re.sub(color_re, match_to_ansi(color, kwargs.get("enclose")), string, zsh)
+    string = re.sub(color_re, match_to_ansi(color, kwargs.get("enclose")), string)
     string = string.replace("}}", "}")
     return string
 

lib/spack/llnl/util/tty/log.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/llnl/util/tty/pty.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/spack/__init__.py

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
 
 #: PEP440 canonical <major>.<minor>.<micro>.<devN> string
-__version__ = "0.22.0.dev0"
+__version__ = "0.21.0.dev0"
 spack_version = __version__
 
 

lib/spack/spack/abi.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

lib/spack/spack/audit.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ def _search_duplicate_compilers(error_cls):
 import collections.abc
 import glob
 import inspect
-import io
 import itertools
 import pathlib
 import pickle
@@ -55,7 +54,6 @@ def _search_duplicate_compilers(error_cls):
 import spack.repo
 import spack.spec
 import spack.util.crypto
-import spack.util.spack_yaml as syaml
 import spack.variant
 
 #: Map an audit tag to a list of callables implementing checks
@@ -244,7 +242,7 @@ def _search_duplicate_specs_in_externals(error_cls):
                 + lines
                 + ["as they might result in non-deterministic hashes"]
             )
-        except (TypeError, AttributeError):
+        except TypeError:
             details = []
 
         errors.append(error_cls(summary=error_msg, details=details))
@@ -252,112 +250,6 @@ def _search_duplicate_specs_in_externals(error_cls):
     return errors
 
 
-@config_packages
-def _deprecated_preferences(error_cls):
-    """Search package preferences deprecated in v0.21 (and slated for removal in v0.22)"""
-    # TODO (v0.22): remove this audit as the attributes will not be allowed in config
-    errors = []
-    packages_yaml = spack.config.CONFIG.get_config("packages")
-
-    def make_error(attribute_name, config_data, summary):
-        s = io.StringIO()
-        s.write("Occurring in the following file:\n")
-        dict_view = syaml.syaml_dict((k, v) for k, v in config_data.items() if k == attribute_name)
-        syaml.dump_config(dict_view, stream=s, blame=True)
-        return error_cls(summary=summary, details=[s.getvalue()])
-
-    if "all" in packages_yaml and "version" in packages_yaml["all"]:
-        summary = "Using the deprecated 'version' attribute under 'packages:all'"
-        errors.append(make_error("version", packages_yaml["all"], summary))
-
-    for package_name in packages_yaml:
-        if package_name == "all":
-            continue
-
-        package_conf = packages_yaml[package_name]
-        for attribute in ("compiler", "providers", "target"):
-            if attribute not in package_conf:
-                continue
-            summary = (
-                f"Using the deprecated '{attribute}' attribute " f"under 'packages:{package_name}'"
-            )
-            errors.append(make_error(attribute, package_conf, summary))
-
-    return errors
-
-
-@config_packages
-def _avoid_mismatched_variants(error_cls):
-    """Warns if variant preferences have mismatched types or names."""
-    errors = []
-    packages_yaml = spack.config.CONFIG.get_config("packages")
-
-    for pkg_name in packages_yaml:
-        # 'all:' must be more forgiving, since it is setting defaults for everything
-        if pkg_name == "all" or "variants" not in packages_yaml[pkg_name]:
-            continue
-
-        preferences = packages_yaml[pkg_name]["variants"]
-        if not isinstance(preferences, list):
-            preferences = [preferences]
-
-        for variants in preferences:
-            current_spec = spack.spec.Spec(variants)
-            pkg_cls = spack.repo.PATH.get_pkg_class(pkg_name)
-            for variant in current_spec.variants.values():
-                # Variant does not exist at all
-                if variant.name not in pkg_cls.variants:
-                    summary = (
-                        f"Setting a preference for the '{pkg_name}' package to the "
-                        f"non-existing variant '{variant.name}'"
-                    )
-                    errors.append(_make_config_error(preferences, summary, error_cls=error_cls))
-                    continue
-
-                # Variant cannot accept this value
-                s = spack.spec.Spec(pkg_name)
-                try:
-                    s.update_variant_validate(variant.name, variant.value)
-                except Exception:
-                    summary = (
-                        f"Setting the variant '{variant.name}' of the '{pkg_name}' package "
-                        f"to the invalid value '{str(variant)}'"
-                    )
-                    errors.append(_make_config_error(preferences, summary, error_cls=error_cls))
-
-    return errors
-
-
-@config_packages
-def _wrongly_named_spec(error_cls):
-    """Warns if the wrong name is used for an external spec"""
-    errors = []
-    packages_yaml = spack.config.CONFIG.get_config("packages")
-    for pkg_name in packages_yaml:
-        if pkg_name == "all":
-            continue
-
-        externals = packages_yaml[pkg_name].get("externals", [])
-        is_virtual = spack.repo.PATH.is_virtual(pkg_name)
-        for entry in externals:
-            spec = spack.spec.Spec(entry["spec"])
-            regular_pkg_is_wrong = not is_virtual and pkg_name != spec.name
-            virtual_pkg_is_wrong = is_virtual and not any(
-                p.name == spec.name for p in spack.repo.PATH.providers_for(pkg_name)
-            )
-            if regular_pkg_is_wrong or virtual_pkg_is_wrong:
-                summary = f"Wrong external spec detected for '{pkg_name}': {spec}"
-                errors.append(_make_config_error(entry, summary, error_cls=error_cls))
-    return errors
-
-
-def _make_config_error(config_data, summary, error_cls):
-    s = io.StringIO()
-    s.write("Occurring in the following file:\n")
-    syaml.dump_config(config_data, stream=s, blame=True)
-    return error_cls(summary=summary, details=[s.getvalue()])
-
-
 #: Sanity checks on package directives
 package_directives = AuditClass(
     group="packages",
@@ -691,8 +583,8 @@ def _unknown_variants_in_directives(pkgs, error_cls):
         pkg_cls = spack.repo.PATH.get_pkg_class(pkg_name)
 
         # Check "conflicts" directive
-        for trigger, conflicts in pkg_cls.conflicts.items():
-            for conflict, _ in conflicts:
+        for conflict, triggers in pkg_cls.conflicts.items():
+            for trigger, _ in triggers:
                 vrn = spack.spec.Spec(conflict)
                 try:
                     vrn.constrain(trigger)
@@ -718,21 +610,25 @@ def _unknown_variants_in_directives(pkgs, error_cls):
                 )
 
         # Check "depends_on" directive
-        for trigger in pkg_cls.dependencies:
-            vrn = spack.spec.Spec(trigger)
-            errors.extend(
-                _analyze_variants_in_directive(
-                    pkg_cls, vrn, directive="depends_on", error_cls=error_cls
+        for _, triggers in pkg_cls.dependencies.items():
+            triggers = list(triggers)
+            for trigger in list(triggers):
+                vrn = spack.spec.Spec(trigger)
+                errors.extend(
+                    _analyze_variants_in_directive(
+                        pkg_cls, vrn, directive="depends_on", error_cls=error_cls
+                    )
                 )
-            )
 
-        # Check "provides" directive
-        for when_spec in pkg_cls.provided:
-            errors.extend(
-                _analyze_variants_in_directive(
-                    pkg_cls, when_spec, directive="provides", error_cls=error_cls
+        # Check "patch" directive
+        for _, triggers in pkg_cls.provided.items():
+            triggers = [spack.spec.Spec(x) for x in triggers]
+            for vrn in triggers:
+                errors.extend(
+                    _analyze_variants_in_directive(
+                        pkg_cls, vrn, directive="patch", error_cls=error_cls
+                    )
                 )
-            )
 
         # Check "resource" directive
         for vrn in pkg_cls.resources:
@@ -746,102 +642,47 @@ def _unknown_variants_in_directives(pkgs, error_cls):
 
 
 @package_directives
-def _issues_in_depends_on_directive(pkgs, error_cls):
-    """Reports issues with 'depends_on' directives.
-
-    Issues might be unknown dependencies, unknown variants or variant values, or declaration
-    of nested dependencies.
-    """
+def _unknown_variants_in_dependencies(pkgs, error_cls):
+    """Report unknown dependencies and wrong variants for dependencies"""
     errors = []
     for pkg_name in pkgs:
         pkg_cls = spack.repo.PATH.get_pkg_class(pkg_name)
         filename = spack.repo.PATH.filename_for_package_name(pkg_name)
+        for dependency_name, dependency_data in pkg_cls.dependencies.items():
+            # No need to analyze virtual packages
+            if spack.repo.PATH.is_virtual(dependency_name):
+                continue
 
-        for when, deps_by_name in pkg_cls.dependencies.items():
-            for dep_name, dep in deps_by_name.items():
-                # Check if there are nested dependencies declared. We don't want directives like:
-                #
-                #     depends_on('foo+bar ^fee+baz')
-                #
-                # but we'd like to have two dependencies listed instead.
-                nested_dependencies = dep.spec.dependencies()
-                if nested_dependencies:
-                    summary = f"{pkg_name}: nested dependency declaration '{dep.spec}'"
-                    ndir = len(nested_dependencies) + 1
-                    details = [
-                        f"split depends_on('{dep.spec}', when='{when}') into {ndir} directives",
-                        f"in {filename}",
-                    ]
-                    errors.append(error_cls(summary=summary, details=details))
+            try:
+                dependency_pkg_cls = spack.repo.PATH.get_pkg_class(dependency_name)
+            except spack.repo.UnknownPackageError:
+                # This dependency is completely missing, so report
+                # and continue the analysis
+                summary = pkg_name + ": unknown package '{0}' in " "'depends_on' directive".format(
+                    dependency_name
+                )
+                details = [" in " + filename]
+                errors.append(error_cls(summary=summary, details=details))
+                continue
 
-                def check_virtual_with_variants(spec, msg):
-                    if not spec.virtual or not spec.variants:
-                        return
-                    error = error_cls(
-                        f"{pkg_name}: {msg}",
-                        f"remove variants from '{spec}' in depends_on directive in {filename}",
-                    )
-                    errors.append(error)
-
-                check_virtual_with_variants(dep.spec, "virtual dependency cannot have variants")
-                check_virtual_with_variants(dep.spec, "virtual when= spec cannot have variants")
-
-                # No need to analyze virtual packages
-                if spack.repo.PATH.is_virtual(dep_name):
-                    continue
-
-                # check for unknown dependencies
-                try:
-                    dependency_pkg_cls = spack.repo.PATH.get_pkg_class(dep_name)
-                except spack.repo.UnknownPackageError:
-                    # This dependency is completely missing, so report
-                    # and continue the analysis
-                    summary = f"{pkg_name}: unknown package '{dep_name}' in 'depends_on' directive"
-                    details = [f" in {filename}"]
-                    errors.append(error_cls(summary=summary, details=details))
-                    continue
-
-                # Check for self-referential specs similar to:
-                #
-                # depends_on("foo@X.Y", when="^foo+bar")
-                #
-                # That would allow clingo to choose whether to have foo@X.Y+bar in the graph.
-                problematic_edges = [
-                    x for x in when.edges_to_dependencies(dep_name) if not x.virtuals
-                ]
-                if problematic_edges and not dep.patches:
-                    summary = (
-                        f"{pkg_name}: dependency on '{dep.spec}' when '{when}' is self-referential"
-                    )
-                    details = [
-                        (
-                            f" please specify better using '^[virtuals=...] {dep_name}', or "
-                            f"substitute with an equivalent condition on '{pkg_name}'"
-                        ),
-                        f" in {filename}",
-                    ]
-                    errors.append(error_cls(summary=summary, details=details))
-                    continue
-
-                # check variants
-                dependency_variants = dep.spec.variants
+            for _, dependency_edge in dependency_data.items():
+                dependency_variants = dependency_edge.spec.variants
                 for name, value in dependency_variants.items():
                     try:
                         v, _ = dependency_pkg_cls.variants[name]
                         v.validate_or_raise(value, pkg_cls=dependency_pkg_cls)
                     except Exception as e:
                         summary = (
-                            f"{pkg_name}: wrong variant used for dependency in 'depends_on()'"
+                            pkg_name + ": wrong variant used for a "
+                            "dependency in a 'depends_on' directive"
                         )
-
+                        error_msg = str(e).strip()
                         if isinstance(e, KeyError):
-                            error_msg = (
-                                f"variant {str(e).strip()} does not exist in package {dep_name}"
-                            )
-                        error_msg += f" in package '{dep_name}'"
+                            error_msg = "the variant {0} does not " "exist".format(error_msg)
+                        error_msg += " in package '" + dependency_name + "'"
 
                         errors.append(
-                            error_cls(summary=summary, details=[error_msg, f"in {filename}"])
+                            error_cls(summary=summary, details=[error_msg, "in " + filename])
                         )
 
     return errors
@@ -908,17 +749,14 @@ def _version_constraints_are_satisfiable_by_some_version_in_repo(pkgs, error_cls
     for pkg_name in pkgs:
         pkg_cls = spack.repo.PATH.get_pkg_class(pkg_name)
         filename = spack.repo.PATH.filename_for_package_name(pkg_name)
-
         dependencies_to_check = []
+        for dependency_name, dependency_data in pkg_cls.dependencies.items():
+            # Skip virtual dependencies for the time being, check on
+            # their versions can be added later
+            if spack.repo.PATH.is_virtual(dependency_name):
+                continue
 
-        for _, deps_by_name in pkg_cls.dependencies.items():
-            for dep_name, dep in deps_by_name.items():
-                # Skip virtual dependencies for the time being, check on
-                # their versions can be added later
-                if spack.repo.PATH.is_virtual(dep_name):
-                    continue
-
-                dependencies_to_check.append(dep.spec)
+            dependencies_to_check.extend([edge.spec for edge in dependency_data.values()])
 
         host_architecture = spack.spec.ArchSpec.default_arch()
         for s in dependencies_to_check:
@@ -938,7 +776,7 @@ def _version_constraints_are_satisfiable_by_some_version_in_repo(pkgs, error_cls
                 )
             except Exception:
                 summary = (
-                    "{0}: dependency on {1} cannot be satisfied by known versions of {1.name}"
+                    "{0}: dependency on {1} cannot be satisfied " "by known versions of {1.name}"
                 ).format(pkg_name, s)
                 details = ["happening in " + filename]
                 if dependency_pkg_cls is not None:
@@ -980,67 +818,6 @@ def _analyze_variants_in_directive(pkg, constraint, directive, error_cls):
     return errors
 
 
-@package_directives
-def _named_specs_in_when_arguments(pkgs, error_cls):
-    """Reports named specs in the 'when=' attribute of a directive.
-
-    Note that 'conflicts' is the only directive allowing that.
-    """
-    errors = []
-    for pkg_name in pkgs:
-        pkg_cls = spack.repo.PATH.get_pkg_class(pkg_name)
-
-        def _refers_to_pkg(when):
-            when_spec = spack.spec.Spec(when)
-            return when_spec.name is None or when_spec.name == pkg_name
-
-        def _error_items(when_dict):
-            for when, elts in when_dict.items():
-                if not _refers_to_pkg(when):
-                    yield when, elts, [f"using '{when}', should be '^{when}'"]
-
-        def _extracts_errors(triggers, summary):
-            _errors = []
-            for trigger in list(triggers):
-                if not _refers_to_pkg(trigger):
-                    details = [f"using '{trigger}', should be '^{trigger}'"]
-                    _errors.append(error_cls(summary=summary, details=details))
-            return _errors
-
-        for when, dnames, details in _error_items(pkg_cls.dependencies):
-            errors.extend(
-                error_cls(f"{pkg_name}: wrong 'when=' condition for '{dname}' dependency", details)
-                for dname in dnames
-            )
-
-        for vname, (variant, triggers) in pkg_cls.variants.items():
-            summary = f"{pkg_name}: wrong 'when=' condition for the '{vname}' variant"
-            errors.extend(_extracts_errors(triggers, summary))
-
-        for when, providers, details in _error_items(pkg_cls.provided):
-            errors.extend(
-                error_cls(f"{pkg_name}: wrong 'when=' condition for '{provided}' virtual", details)
-                for provided in providers
-            )
-
-        for when, requirements, details in _error_items(pkg_cls.requirements):
-            errors.append(
-                error_cls(f"{pkg_name}: wrong 'when=' condition in 'requires' directive", details)
-            )
-
-        for when, _, details in _error_items(pkg_cls.patches):
-            errors.append(
-                error_cls(f"{pkg_name}: wrong 'when=' condition in 'patch' directives", details)
-            )
-
-        for when, _, details in _error_items(pkg_cls.resources):
-            errors.append(
-                error_cls(f"{pkg_name}: wrong 'when=' condition in 'resource' directives", details)
-            )
-
-    return llnl.util.lang.dedupe(errors)
-
-
 #: Sanity checks on package directives
 external_detection = AuditClass(
     group="externals",

lib/spack/spack/binary_distribution.py

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
 
 import codecs
 import collections
+import errno
 import hashlib
 import io
 import itertools
@@ -22,8 +23,9 @@
 import urllib.parse
 import urllib.request
 import warnings
-from contextlib import closing
-from typing import Dict, Iterable, List, NamedTuple, Optional, Set, Tuple
+from contextlib import closing, contextmanager
+from gzip import GzipFile
+from typing import Dict, List, NamedTuple, Optional, Set, Tuple
 from urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError
 
 import llnl.util.filesystem as fsys
@@ -48,7 +50,6 @@
 import spack.stage
 import spack.store
 import spack.traverse as traverse
-import spack.util.archive
 import spack.util.crypto
 import spack.util.file_cache as file_cache
 import spack.util.gpg
@@ -65,12 +66,8 @@
 from spack.stage import Stage
 from spack.util.executable import which
 
-BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH = "build_cache"
-BUILD_CACHE_KEYS_RELATIVE_PATH = "_pgp"
-
-#: The build cache layout version that this version of Spack creates.
-#: Version 2: includes parent directories of the package prefix in the tarball
-CURRENT_BUILD_CACHE_LAYOUT_VERSION = 2
+_build_cache_relative_path = "build_cache"
+_build_cache_keys_relative_path = "_pgp"
 
 
 class BuildCacheDatabase(spack_db.Database):
@@ -232,11 +229,7 @@ def _associate_built_specs_with_mirror(self, cache_key, mirror_url):
                 )
                 return
 
-            spec_list = [
-                s
-                for s in db.query_local(installed=any, in_buildcache=any)
-                if s.external or db.query_local_by_spec_hash(s.dag_hash()).in_buildcache
-            ]
+            spec_list = db.query_local(installed=False, in_buildcache=True)
 
             for indexed_spec in spec_list:
                 dag_hash = indexed_spec.dag_hash()
@@ -488,7 +481,7 @@ def _fetch_and_cache_index(self, mirror_url, cache_entry={}):
         scheme = urllib.parse.urlparse(mirror_url).scheme
 
         if scheme != "oci" and not web_util.url_exists(
-            url_util.join(mirror_url, BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH, "index.json")
+            url_util.join(mirror_url, _build_cache_relative_path, "index.json")
         ):
             return False
 
@@ -607,10 +600,6 @@ def __init__(self, msg):
         super().__init__(msg)
 
 
-class InvalidMetadataFile(spack.error.SpackError):
-    pass
-
-
 class UnsignedPackageException(spack.error.SpackError):
     """
     Raised if installation of unsigned package is attempted without
@@ -625,11 +614,11 @@ def compute_hash(data):
 
 
 def build_cache_relative_path():
-    return BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH
+    return _build_cache_relative_path
 
 
 def build_cache_keys_relative_path():
-    return BUILD_CACHE_KEYS_RELATIVE_PATH
+    return _build_cache_keys_relative_path
 
 
 def build_cache_prefix(prefix):
@@ -1132,46 +1121,195 @@ def generate_key_index(key_prefix, tmpdir=None):
                 shutil.rmtree(tmpdir)
 
 
+@contextmanager
+def gzip_compressed_tarfile(path):
+    """Create a reproducible, compressed tarfile"""
+    # Create gzip compressed tarball of the install prefix
+    # 1) Use explicit empty filename and mtime 0 for gzip header reproducibility.
+    #    If the filename="" is dropped, Python will use fileobj.name instead.
+    #    This should effectively mimick `gzip --no-name`.
+    # 2) On AMD Ryzen 3700X and an SSD disk, we have the following on compression speed:
+    # compresslevel=6 gzip default: llvm takes 4mins, roughly 2.1GB
+    # compresslevel=9 python default: llvm takes 12mins, roughly 2.1GB
+    # So we follow gzip.
+    with open(path, "wb") as f, ChecksumWriter(f) as inner_checksum, closing(
+        GzipFile(filename="", mode="wb", compresslevel=6, mtime=0, fileobj=inner_checksum)
+    ) as gzip_file, ChecksumWriter(gzip_file) as outer_checksum, tarfile.TarFile(
+        name="", mode="w", fileobj=outer_checksum
+    ) as tar:
+        yield tar, inner_checksum, outer_checksum
+
+
+def _tarinfo_name(absolute_path: str, *, _path=pathlib.PurePath) -> str:
+    """Compute tarfile entry name as the relative path from the (system) root."""
+    return _path(*_path(absolute_path).parts[1:]).as_posix()
+
+
 def tarfile_of_spec_prefix(tar: tarfile.TarFile, prefix: str) -> None:
     """Create a tarfile of an install prefix of a spec. Skips existing buildinfo file.
+    Only adds regular files, symlinks and dirs. Skips devices, fifos. Preserves hardlinks.
+    Normalizes permissions like git. Tar entries are added in depth-first pre-order, with
+    dir entries partitioned by file | dir, and sorted alphabetically, for reproducibility.
+    Partitioning ensures only one dir is in memory at a time, and sorting improves compression.
 
     Args:
         tar: tarfile object to add files to
         prefix: absolute install prefix of spec"""
     if not os.path.isabs(prefix) or not os.path.isdir(prefix):
         raise ValueError(f"prefix '{prefix}' must be an absolute path to a directory")
+    hardlink_to_tarinfo_name: Dict[Tuple[int, int], str] = dict()
     stat_key = lambda stat: (stat.st_dev, stat.st_ino)
 
     try:  # skip buildinfo file if it exists
         files_to_skip = [stat_key(os.lstat(buildinfo_file_name(prefix)))]
-        skip = lambda entry: stat_key(entry.stat(follow_symlinks=False)) in files_to_skip
     except OSError:
-        skip = lambda entry: False
+        files_to_skip = []
 
-    spack.util.archive.reproducible_tarfile_from_prefix(
-        tar,
-        prefix,
-        # Spack <= 0.21 did not include parent directories, leading to issues when tarballs are
-        # used in runtimes like AWS lambda.
-        include_parent_directories=True,
-        skip=skip,
-    )
+    dir_stack = [prefix]
+    while dir_stack:
+        dir = dir_stack.pop()
+
+        # Add the dir before its contents
+        dir_info = tarfile.TarInfo(_tarinfo_name(dir))
+        dir_info.type = tarfile.DIRTYPE
+        dir_info.mode = 0o755
+        tar.addfile(dir_info)
+
+        # Sort by name: reproducible & improves compression
+        with os.scandir(dir) as it:
+            entries = sorted(it, key=lambda entry: entry.name)
+
+        new_dirs = []
+        for entry in entries:
+            if entry.is_dir(follow_symlinks=False):
+                new_dirs.append(entry.path)
+                continue
+
+            file_info = tarfile.TarInfo(_tarinfo_name(entry.path))
+
+            s = entry.stat(follow_symlinks=False)
+
+            # Skip existing binary distribution files.
+            id = stat_key(s)
+            if id in files_to_skip:
+                continue
+
+            # Normalize the mode
+            file_info.mode = 0o644 if s.st_mode & 0o100 == 0 else 0o755
+
+            if entry.is_symlink():
+                file_info.type = tarfile.SYMTYPE
+                file_info.linkname = os.readlink(entry.path)
+                tar.addfile(file_info)
+
+            elif entry.is_file(follow_symlinks=False):
+                # Deduplicate hardlinks
+                if s.st_nlink > 1:
+                    if id in hardlink_to_tarinfo_name:
+                        file_info.type = tarfile.LNKTYPE
+                        file_info.linkname = hardlink_to_tarinfo_name[id]
+                        tar.addfile(file_info)
+                        continue
+                    hardlink_to_tarinfo_name[id] = file_info.name
+
+                # If file not yet seen, copy it.
+                file_info.type = tarfile.REGTYPE
+                file_info.size = s.st_size
+
+                with open(entry.path, "rb") as f:
+                    tar.addfile(file_info, f)
+
+        dir_stack.extend(reversed(new_dirs))  # we pop, so reverse to stay alphabetical
+
+
+class ChecksumWriter(io.BufferedIOBase):
+    """Checksum writer computes a checksum while writing to a file."""
+
+    myfileobj = None
+
+    def __init__(self, fileobj, algorithm=hashlib.sha256):
+        self.fileobj = fileobj
+        self.hasher = algorithm()
+        self.length = 0
+
+    def hexdigest(self):
+        return self.hasher.hexdigest()
+
+    def write(self, data):
+        if isinstance(data, (bytes, bytearray)):
+            length = len(data)
+        else:
+            data = memoryview(data)
+            length = data.nbytes
+
+        if length > 0:
+            self.fileobj.write(data)
+            self.hasher.update(data)
+
+        self.length += length
+
+        return length
+
+    def read(self, size=-1):
+        raise OSError(errno.EBADF, "read() on write-only object")
+
+    def read1(self, size=-1):
+        raise OSError(errno.EBADF, "read1() on write-only object")
+
+    def peek(self, n):
+        raise OSError(errno.EBADF, "peek() on write-only object")
+
+    @property
+    def closed(self):
+        return self.fileobj is None
+
+    def close(self):
+        fileobj = self.fileobj
+        if fileobj is None:
+            return
+        self.fileobj.close()
+        self.fileobj = None
+
+    def flush(self):
+        self.fileobj.flush()
+
+    def fileno(self):
+        return self.fileobj.fileno()
+
+    def rewind(self):
+        raise OSError("Can't rewind while computing checksum")
+
+    def readable(self):
+        return False
+
+    def writable(self):
+        return True
+
+    def seekable(self):
+        return True
+
+    def tell(self):
+        return self.fileobj.tell()
+
+    def seek(self, offset, whence=io.SEEK_SET):
+        # In principle forward seek is possible with b"0" padding,
+        # but this is not implemented.
+        if offset == 0 and whence == io.SEEK_CUR:
+            return
+        raise OSError("Can't seek while computing checksum")
+
+    def readline(self, size=-1):
+        raise OSError(errno.EBADF, "readline() on write-only object")
 
 
 def _do_create_tarball(tarfile_path: str, binaries_dir: str, buildinfo: dict):
-    with spack.util.archive.gzip_compressed_tarfile(tarfile_path) as (
-        tar,
-        inner_checksum,
-        outer_checksum,
-    ):
+    with gzip_compressed_tarfile(tarfile_path) as (tar, inner_checksum, outer_checksum):
         # Tarball the install prefix
         tarfile_of_spec_prefix(tar, binaries_dir)
 
         # Serialize buildinfo for the tarball
         bstring = syaml.dump(buildinfo, default_flow_style=True).encode("utf-8")
-        tarinfo = tarfile.TarInfo(
-            name=spack.util.archive.default_path_to_name(buildinfo_file_name(binaries_dir))
-        )
+        tarinfo = tarfile.TarInfo(name=_tarinfo_name(buildinfo_file_name(binaries_dir)))
         tarinfo.type = tarfile.REGTYPE
         tarinfo.size = len(bstring)
         tarinfo.mode = 0o644
@@ -1263,7 +1401,7 @@ def _build_tarball_in_stage_dir(spec: Spec, out_url: str, stage_dir: str, option
             spec_dict = sjson.load(content)
         else:
             raise ValueError("{0} not a valid spec file type".format(spec_file))
-    spec_dict["buildcache_layout_version"] = CURRENT_BUILD_CACHE_LAYOUT_VERSION
+    spec_dict["buildcache_layout_version"] = 1
     spec_dict["binary_cache_checksum"] = {"hash_algorithm": "sha256", "hash": checksum}
 
     with open(specfile_path, "w") as outfile:
@@ -1422,50 +1560,14 @@ def _delete_staged_downloads(download_result):
     download_result["specfile_stage"].destroy()
 
 
-def _get_valid_spec_file(path: str, max_supported_layout: int) -> Tuple[Dict, int]:
-    """Read and validate a spec file, returning the spec dict with its layout version, or raising
-    InvalidMetadataFile if invalid."""
-    try:
-        with open(path, "rb") as f:
-            binary_content = f.read()
-    except OSError:
-        raise InvalidMetadataFile(f"No such file: {path}")
-
-    # In the future we may support transparently decompressing compressed spec files.
-    if binary_content[:2] == b"\x1f\x8b":
-        raise InvalidMetadataFile("Compressed spec files are not supported")
-
-    try:
-        as_string = binary_content.decode("utf-8")
-        if path.endswith(".json.sig"):
-            spec_dict = Spec.extract_json_from_clearsig(as_string)
-        else:
-            spec_dict = json.loads(as_string)
-    except Exception as e:
-        raise InvalidMetadataFile(f"Could not parse {path} due to: {e}") from e
-
-    # Ensure this version is not too new.
-    try:
-        layout_version = int(spec_dict.get("buildcache_layout_version", 0))
-    except ValueError as e:
-        raise InvalidMetadataFile("Could not parse layout version") from e
-
-    if layout_version > max_supported_layout:
-        raise InvalidMetadataFile(
-            f"Layout version {layout_version} is too new for this version of Spack"
-        )
-
-    return spec_dict, layout_version
-
-
-def download_tarball(spec, unsigned: Optional[bool] = False, mirrors_for_spec=None):
+def download_tarball(spec, unsigned=False, mirrors_for_spec=None):
     """
     Download binary tarball for given package into stage area, returning
     path to downloaded tarball if successful, None otherwise.
 
     Args:
         spec (spack.spec.Spec): Concrete spec
-        unsigned: if ``True`` or ``False`` override the mirror signature verification defaults
+        unsigned (bool): Whether or not to require signed binaries
         mirrors_for_spec (list): Optional list of concrete specs and mirrors
             obtained by calling binary_distribution.get_mirrors_for_spec().
             These will be checked in order first before looking in other
@@ -1486,9 +1588,7 @@ def download_tarball(spec, unsigned: Optional[bool] = False, mirrors_for_spec=No
            "signature_verified": "true-if-binary-pkg-was-already-verified"
        }
     """
-    configured_mirrors: Iterable[spack.mirror.Mirror] = spack.mirror.MirrorCollection(
-        binary=True
-    ).values()
+    configured_mirrors = spack.mirror.MirrorCollection(binary=True).values()
     if not configured_mirrors:
         tty.die("Please add a spack mirror to allow download of pre-compiled packages.")
 
@@ -1506,16 +1606,8 @@ def download_tarball(spec, unsigned: Optional[bool] = False, mirrors_for_spec=No
     # mirror for the spec twice though.
     try_first = [i["mirror_url"] for i in mirrors_for_spec] if mirrors_for_spec else []
     try_next = [i.fetch_url for i in configured_mirrors if i.fetch_url not in try_first]
-    mirror_urls = try_first + try_next
 
-    # TODO: turn `mirrors_for_spec` into a list of Mirror instances, instead of doing that here.
-    def fetch_url_to_mirror(url):
-        for mirror in configured_mirrors:
-            if mirror.fetch_url == url:
-                return mirror
-        return spack.mirror.Mirror(url)
-
-    mirrors = [fetch_url_to_mirror(url) for url in mirror_urls]
+    mirrors = try_first + try_next
 
     tried_to_verify_sigs = []
 
@@ -1524,24 +1616,21 @@ def fetch_url_to_mirror(url):
     # we remove support for deprecated spec formats and buildcache layouts.
     for try_signed in (True, False):
         for mirror in mirrors:
-            # Override mirror's default if
-            currently_unsigned = unsigned if unsigned is not None else not mirror.signed
-
             # If it's an OCI index, do things differently, since we cannot compose URLs.
-            fetch_url = mirror.fetch_url
+            parsed = urllib.parse.urlparse(mirror)
 
             # TODO: refactor this to some "nice" place.
-            if fetch_url.startswith("oci://"):
-                ref = spack.oci.image.ImageReference.from_string(
-                    fetch_url[len("oci://") :]
-                ).with_tag(spack.oci.image.default_tag(spec))
+            if parsed.scheme == "oci":
+                ref = spack.oci.image.ImageReference.from_string(mirror[len("oci://") :]).with_tag(
+                    spack.oci.image.default_tag(spec)
+                )
 
                 # Fetch the manifest
                 try:
                     response = spack.oci.opener.urlopen(
                         urllib.request.Request(
                             url=ref.manifest_url(),
-                            headers={"Accept": ", ".join(spack.oci.oci.manifest_content_type)},
+                            headers={"Accept": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json"},
                         )
                     )
                 except Exception:
@@ -1563,18 +1652,6 @@ def fetch_url_to_mirror(url):
                     try:
                         local_specfile_stage.fetch()
                         local_specfile_stage.check()
-                        try:
-                            _get_valid_spec_file(
-                                local_specfile_stage.save_filename,
-                                CURRENT_BUILD_CACHE_LAYOUT_VERSION,
-                            )
-                        except InvalidMetadataFile as e:
-                            tty.warn(
-                                f"Ignoring binary package for {spec.name}/{spec.dag_hash()[:7]} "
-                                f"from {fetch_url} due to invalid metadata file: {e}"
-                            )
-                            local_specfile_stage.destroy()
-                            continue
                     except Exception:
                         continue
                     local_specfile_stage.cache_local()
@@ -1593,43 +1670,28 @@ def fetch_url_to_mirror(url):
                     "tarball_stage": tarball_stage,
                     "specfile_stage": local_specfile_stage,
                     "signature_verified": False,
-                    "signature_required": not currently_unsigned,
                 }
 
             else:
                 ext = "json.sig" if try_signed else "json"
-                specfile_path = url_util.join(
-                    fetch_url, BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH, specfile_prefix
-                )
+                specfile_path = url_util.join(mirror, _build_cache_relative_path, specfile_prefix)
                 specfile_url = f"{specfile_path}.{ext}"
-                spackfile_url = url_util.join(fetch_url, BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH, tarball)
+                spackfile_url = url_util.join(mirror, _build_cache_relative_path, tarball)
                 local_specfile_stage = try_fetch(specfile_url)
                 if local_specfile_stage:
                     local_specfile_path = local_specfile_stage.save_filename
                     signature_verified = False
 
-                    try:
-                        _get_valid_spec_file(
-                            local_specfile_path, CURRENT_BUILD_CACHE_LAYOUT_VERSION
-                        )
-                    except InvalidMetadataFile as e:
-                        tty.warn(
-                            f"Ignoring binary package for {spec.name}/{spec.dag_hash()[:7]} "
-                            f"from {fetch_url} due to invalid metadata file: {e}"
-                        )
-                        local_specfile_stage.destroy()
-                        continue
-
-                    if try_signed and not currently_unsigned:
+                    if try_signed and not unsigned:
                         # If we found a signed specfile at the root, try to verify
                         # the signature immediately.  We will not download the
                         # tarball if we could not verify the signature.
                         tried_to_verify_sigs.append(specfile_url)
                         signature_verified = try_verify(local_specfile_path)
                         if not signature_verified:
-                            tty.warn(f"Failed to verify: {specfile_url}")
+                            tty.warn("Failed to verify: {0}".format(specfile_url))
 
-                    if currently_unsigned or signature_verified or not try_signed:
+                    if unsigned or signature_verified or not try_signed:
                         # We will download the tarball in one of three cases:
                         #     1. user asked for --no-check-signature
                         #     2. user didn't ask for --no-check-signature, but we
@@ -1652,7 +1714,6 @@ def fetch_url_to_mirror(url):
                                 "tarball_stage": tarball_stage,
                                 "specfile_stage": local_specfile_stage,
                                 "signature_verified": signature_verified,
-                                "signature_required": not currently_unsigned,
                             }
 
                     local_specfile_stage.destroy()
@@ -1851,7 +1912,7 @@ def is_backup_file(file):
             relocate.relocate_text(text_names, prefix_to_prefix_text)
 
 
-def _extract_inner_tarball(spec, filename, extract_to, signature_required: bool, remote_checksum):
+def _extract_inner_tarball(spec, filename, extract_to, unsigned, remote_checksum):
     stagepath = os.path.dirname(filename)
     spackfile_name = tarball_name(spec, ".spack")
     spackfile_path = os.path.join(stagepath, spackfile_name)
@@ -1871,7 +1932,7 @@ def _extract_inner_tarball(spec, filename, extract_to, signature_required: bool,
     else:
         raise ValueError("Cannot find spec file for {0}.".format(extract_to))
 
-    if signature_required:
+    if not unsigned:
         if os.path.exists("%s.asc" % specfile_path):
             suppress = config.get("config:suppress_gpg_warnings", False)
             try:
@@ -1900,12 +1961,11 @@ def _extract_inner_tarball(spec, filename, extract_to, signature_required: bool,
 
 
 def _tar_strip_component(tar: tarfile.TarFile, prefix: str):
-    """Yield all members of tarfile that start with given prefix, and strip that prefix (including
-    symlinks)"""
+    """Strip the top-level directory `prefix` from the member names in a tarfile."""
     # Including trailing /, otherwise we end up with absolute paths.
     regex = re.compile(re.escape(prefix) + "/*")
 
-    # Only yield members in the package prefix.
+    # Remove the top-level directory from the member (link)names.
     # Note: when a tarfile is created, relative in-prefix symlinks are
     # expanded to matching member names of tarfile entries. So, we have
     # to ensure that those are updated too.
@@ -1913,17 +1973,15 @@ def _tar_strip_component(tar: tarfile.TarFile, prefix: str):
     # them.
     for m in tar.getmembers():
         result = regex.match(m.name)
-        if not result:
-            continue
+        assert result is not None
         m.name = m.name[result.end() :]
         if m.linkname:
             result = regex.match(m.linkname)
             if result:
                 m.linkname = m.linkname[result.end() :]
-        yield m
 
 
-def extract_tarball(spec, download_result, force=False, timer=timer.NULL_TIMER):
+def extract_tarball(spec, download_result, unsigned=False, force=False, timer=timer.NULL_TIMER):
     """
     extract binary tarball for given package into install area
     """
@@ -1943,30 +2001,35 @@ def extract_tarball(spec, download_result, force=False, timer=timer.NULL_TIMER):
     )
 
     specfile_path = download_result["specfile_stage"].save_filename
-    spec_dict, layout_version = _get_valid_spec_file(
-        specfile_path, CURRENT_BUILD_CACHE_LAYOUT_VERSION
-    )
+
+    with open(specfile_path, "r") as inputfile:
+        content = inputfile.read()
+        if specfile_path.endswith(".json.sig"):
+            spec_dict = Spec.extract_json_from_clearsig(content)
+        else:
+            spec_dict = sjson.load(content)
+
     bchecksum = spec_dict["binary_cache_checksum"]
 
     filename = download_result["tarball_stage"].save_filename
-    signature_verified: bool = download_result["signature_verified"]
-    signature_required: bool = download_result["signature_required"]
+    signature_verified = download_result["signature_verified"]
     tmpdir = None
 
-    if layout_version == 0:
+    if (
+        "buildcache_layout_version" not in spec_dict
+        or int(spec_dict["buildcache_layout_version"]) < 1
+    ):
         # Handle the older buildcache layout where the .spack file
         # contains a spec json, maybe an .asc file (signature),
         # and another tarball containing the actual install tree.
         tmpdir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
         try:
-            tarfile_path = _extract_inner_tarball(
-                spec, filename, tmpdir, signature_required, bchecksum
-            )
+            tarfile_path = _extract_inner_tarball(spec, filename, tmpdir, unsigned, bchecksum)
         except Exception as e:
             _delete_staged_downloads(download_result)
             shutil.rmtree(tmpdir)
             raise e
-    elif 1 <= layout_version <= 2:
+    else:
         # Newer buildcache layout: the .spack file contains just
         # in the install tree, the signature, if it exists, is
         # wrapped around the spec.json at the root.  If sig verify
@@ -1974,10 +2037,9 @@ def extract_tarball(spec, download_result, force=False, timer=timer.NULL_TIMER):
         # the tarball.
         tarfile_path = filename
 
-        if signature_required and not signature_verified:
+        if not unsigned and not signature_verified:
             raise UnsignedPackageException(
-                "To install unsigned packages, use the --no-check-signature option, "
-                "or configure the mirror with signed: false."
+                "To install unsigned packages, use the --no-check-signature option."
             )
 
         # compute the sha256 checksum of the tarball
@@ -1991,13 +2053,12 @@ def extract_tarball(spec, download_result, force=False, timer=timer.NULL_TIMER):
             raise NoChecksumException(
                 tarfile_path, size, contents, "sha256", expected, local_checksum
             )
+
     try:
         with closing(tarfile.open(tarfile_path, "r")) as tar:
             # Remove install prefix from tarfil to extract directly into spec.prefix
-            tar.extractall(
-                path=spec.prefix,
-                members=_tar_strip_component(tar, prefix=_ensure_common_prefix(tar)),
-            )
+            _tar_strip_component(tar, prefix=_ensure_common_prefix(tar))
+            tar.extractall(path=spec.prefix)
     except Exception:
         shutil.rmtree(spec.prefix, ignore_errors=True)
         _delete_staged_downloads(download_result)
@@ -2032,47 +2093,20 @@ def extract_tarball(spec, download_result, force=False, timer=timer.NULL_TIMER):
 
 
 def _ensure_common_prefix(tar: tarfile.TarFile) -> str:
-    # Find the lowest `binary_distribution` file (hard-coded forward slash is on purpose).
-    binary_distribution = min(
-        (
-            e.name
-            for e in tar.getmembers()
-            if e.isfile() and e.name.endswith(".spack/binary_distribution")
-        ),
-        key=len,
-        default=None,
-    )
+    # Get the shortest length directory.
+    common_prefix = min((e.name for e in tar.getmembers() if e.isdir()), key=len, default=None)
 
-    if binary_distribution is None:
-        raise ValueError("Tarball is not a Spack package, missing binary_distribution file")
+    if common_prefix is None:
+        raise ValueError("Tarball does not contain a common prefix")
 
-    pkg_path = pathlib.PurePosixPath(binary_distribution).parent.parent
-
-    # Even the most ancient Spack version has required to list the dir of the package itself, so
-    # guard against broken tarballs where `path.parent.parent` is empty.
-    if pkg_path == pathlib.PurePosixPath():
-        raise ValueError("Invalid tarball, missing package prefix dir")
-
-    pkg_prefix = str(pkg_path)
-
-    # Ensure all tar entries are in the pkg_prefix dir, and if they're not, they should be parent
-    # dirs of it.
-    has_prefix = False
+    # Validate that each file starts with the prefix
     for member in tar.getmembers():
-        stripped = member.name.rstrip("/")
-        if not (
-            stripped.startswith(pkg_prefix) or member.isdir() and pkg_prefix.startswith(stripped)
-        ):
-            raise ValueError(f"Tarball contains file {stripped} outside of prefix {pkg_prefix}")
-        if member.isdir() and stripped == pkg_prefix:
-            has_prefix = True
+        if not member.name.startswith(common_prefix):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Tarball contains file {member.name} outside of prefix {common_prefix}"
+            )
 
-    # This is technically not required, but let's be defensive about the existence of the package
-    # prefix dir.
-    if not has_prefix:
-        raise ValueError(f"Tarball does not contain a common prefix {pkg_prefix}")
-
-    return pkg_prefix
+    return common_prefix
 
 
 def install_root_node(spec, unsigned=False, force=False, sha256=None):
@@ -2119,7 +2153,7 @@ def install_root_node(spec, unsigned=False, force=False, sha256=None):
     # don't print long padded paths while extracting/relocating binaries
     with spack.util.path.filter_padding():
         tty.msg('Installing "{0}" from a buildcache'.format(spec.format()))
-        extract_tarball(spec, download_result, force)
+        extract_tarball(spec, download_result, unsigned, force)
         spack.hooks.post_install(spec, False)
         spack.store.STORE.db.add(spec, spack.store.STORE.layout)
 
@@ -2150,10 +2184,10 @@ def try_direct_fetch(spec, mirrors=None):
 
     for mirror in binary_mirrors:
         buildcache_fetch_url_json = url_util.join(
-            mirror.fetch_url, BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH, specfile_name
+            mirror.fetch_url, _build_cache_relative_path, specfile_name
         )
         buildcache_fetch_url_signed_json = url_util.join(
-            mirror.fetch_url, BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH, signed_specfile_name
+            mirror.fetch_url, _build_cache_relative_path, signed_specfile_name
         )
         try:
             _, _, fs = web_util.read_from_url(buildcache_fetch_url_signed_json)
@@ -2258,7 +2292,7 @@ def get_keys(install=False, trust=False, force=False, mirrors=None):
     for mirror in mirror_collection.values():
         fetch_url = mirror.fetch_url
         keys_url = url_util.join(
-            fetch_url, BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH, BUILD_CACHE_KEYS_RELATIVE_PATH
+            fetch_url, _build_cache_relative_path, _build_cache_keys_relative_path
         )
         keys_index = url_util.join(keys_url, "index.json")
 
@@ -2323,7 +2357,7 @@ def push_keys(*mirrors, **kwargs):
         for mirror in mirrors:
             push_url = getattr(mirror, "push_url", mirror)
             keys_url = url_util.join(
-                push_url, BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH, BUILD_CACHE_KEYS_RELATIVE_PATH
+                push_url, _build_cache_relative_path, _build_cache_keys_relative_path
             )
             keys_local = url_util.local_file_path(keys_url)
 
@@ -2461,11 +2495,11 @@ def download_buildcache_entry(file_descriptions, mirror_url=None):
         )
 
     if mirror_url:
-        mirror_root = os.path.join(mirror_url, BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH)
+        mirror_root = os.path.join(mirror_url, _build_cache_relative_path)
         return _download_buildcache_entry(mirror_root, file_descriptions)
 
     for mirror in spack.mirror.MirrorCollection(binary=True).values():
-        mirror_root = os.path.join(mirror.fetch_url, BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH)
+        mirror_root = os.path.join(mirror.fetch_url, _build_cache_relative_path)
 
         if _download_buildcache_entry(mirror_root, file_descriptions):
             return True
@@ -2556,7 +2590,7 @@ def __init__(self, url, local_hash, urlopen=web_util.urlopen):
 
     def get_remote_hash(self):
         # Failure to fetch index.json.hash is not fatal
-        url_index_hash = url_util.join(self.url, BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH, "index.json.hash")
+        url_index_hash = url_util.join(self.url, _build_cache_relative_path, "index.json.hash")
         try:
             response = self.urlopen(urllib.request.Request(url_index_hash, headers=self.headers))
         except urllib.error.URLError:
@@ -2577,7 +2611,7 @@ def conditional_fetch(self) -> FetchIndexResult:
             return FetchIndexResult(etag=None, hash=None, data=None, fresh=True)
 
         # Otherwise, download index.json
-        url_index = url_util.join(self.url, BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH, "index.json")
+        url_index = url_util.join(self.url, _build_cache_relative_path, "index.json")
 
         try:
             response = self.urlopen(urllib.request.Request(url_index, headers=self.headers))
@@ -2621,7 +2655,7 @@ def __init__(self, url, etag, urlopen=web_util.urlopen):
 
     def conditional_fetch(self) -> FetchIndexResult:
         # Just do a conditional fetch immediately
-        url = url_util.join(self.url, BUILD_CACHE_RELATIVE_PATH, "index.json")
+        url = url_util.join(self.url, _build_cache_relative_path, "index.json")
         headers = {
             "User-Agent": web_util.SPACK_USER_AGENT,
             "If-None-Match": '"{}"'.format(self.etag),