Feature update for spack

Announcement ID: SUSE-FU-2023:1706-1
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • HPC Module 15-SP4
  • openSUSE Leap 15.4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4

An update that contains two features and has four fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for spack fixes the following issues:

Version update from 0.17.1 to 0.19.1 (jsc#PED-2803, jsc#PED-3000):

  • For the full list of features and upstream fixes implemented by this update please consult the release notes at:
  • https://github.com/spack/spack/releases/tag/v0.19.1
  • https://github.com/spack/spack/releases/tag/v0.19.0
  • https://github.com/spack/spack/releases/tag/v0.18.1

  • https://github.com/spack/spack/releases/tag/v0.18.0

  • Bug fixes and improvements:

  • Make sure the spack environment is set up correctly in spack-generated Dockerfiles (bsc#1207784)
  • Fix MPI packages not being recognized any more (bsc#1208751)
  • Fix syntax in post scripts (bsc#1195391)
  • Fix var_path which that is set incorrectly in version 0.19.0 (bsc#1207053)
  • Move repositories to /usr/share/spack: /var is strictly for local data
  • Improve error message for requirements
  • Fix libtool filter for Fujitsu compilers

  • Fix spack mirror create to not change paths to urls

  • Improve run-find-external.sh script:

  • Extend to run spack compiler find
  • Separate triggers for packages and compilers

  • Better handle when search patterns match multiple directories

  • Removals and Deprecations:

  • Support for Python 3.5 is dropped. Only Python 3.6+ are officially supported.
  • LD_LIBRARY_PATH is no longer set by default by spack load or module loads. Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in Spack environments/modules can cause binaries from outside of Spack to crash, and Spack's own builds use RPATH and do not need LD_LIBRARY_PATH set in order to run. If you still want the old behavior, you can run these commands to configure Spack to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH: spack config add modules:prefix_inspections:lib64:[LD_LIBRARY_PATH] spack config add modules:prefix_inspections:lib:[LD_LIBRARY_PATH]
  • The spack:concretization:[together|separately] has been deprecatred. Now use concretizer:unify:[true|false]
  • config:module_roots is no longer supported. Use configuration in module sets instead
  • spack activate and spack deactivate are no longer supported, having been deprecated in v0.18. Use an environment with a view instead of activating/deactivating (docs)
  • The old YAML format for buildcaches is now deprecated. If you are using an old buildcache with YAML metadata you will need to regenerate it with JSON metadata.
  • spack bootstrap trust and spack bootstrap untrust are deprecated in favor of spack bootstrap enable and spack bootstrap disable
  • The graviton2 architecture has been renamed to neoverse_n1, and graviton3 is now neoverse_v1. Buildcaches using the old architecture names will need to be rebuilt
  • The terms 'blacklist' and 'whitelist' have been replaced with 'include' and 'exclude' in all configuration files. You can use spack config update to automatically fix your configuration files

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.4
    zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-1706=1
  • HPC Module 15-SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-HPC-15-SP4-2023-1706=1

Package List:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch)
    • spack-recipes-0.19.1-150400.12.5.1
    • spack-man-0.19.1-150400.12.5.3
    • spack-0.19.1-150400.12.5.1
    • spack-info-0.19.1-150400.12.5.3
  • HPC Module 15-SP4 (noarch)
    • spack-recipes-0.19.1-150400.12.5.1
    • spack-man-0.19.1-150400.12.5.3
    • spack-0.19.1-150400.12.5.1
    • spack-info-0.19.1-150400.12.5.3

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