Recommended update for spack

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2023:4569-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • HPC Module 15-SP4
  • HPC Module 15-SP5
  • openSUSE Leap 15.4
  • openSUSE Leap 15.5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5

An update that has one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for spack fixes the following issues:

  • Updated to version 0.20.3 with the following changes (bsc#1216941):
  • Bug fixes:
    • Fix a bug where spack mirror set-url would drop configured connection info.
    • Fix a minor issue with package hash computation for Python 3.12.
    • Improve escaping in Tcl module files.
    • Make repo cache work on repositouries with zero mtime.
    • Ignore errors for newer, incompatible buildcache version.
    • Print an error when git is required, but missing.
    • Ensure missing build dependencies get installed when using spack install --overwrite.
    • Fix an issue where Spack freezes when the build process unexpectedly exits.
    • Fix a bug where installation failures cause an unrelated NameError to be thrown.
    • Fix an issue where Spack package versions would be incorrectly derived from git tags.
    • Fix a bug triggered when file locking fails internally.
    • Prevent spack external find to error out when a directory cannot be accessed.
    • Fix multiple performance regressions in environments.
    • Add more ignored modules to pyproject.toml for mypy.
  • Features:
    • Spack now supports Python 3.12.

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 SUSE-2023-4569=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-4569=1
  • openSUSE Leap 15.5
    zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-4569=1
  • HPC Module 15-SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-HPC-15-SP4-2023-4569=1
  • HPC Module 15-SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-HPC-15-SP5-2023-4569=1

Package List:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch)
    • spack-recipes-0.20.3-150400.9.1
    • spack-info-0.20.3-150400.9.1
    • spack-0.20.3-150400.9.1
    • spack-man-0.20.3-150400.9.1
  • openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)
    • spack-info-0.20.3-150400.9.1
    • spack-recipes-0.20.3-150400.9.1
    • spack-0.20.3-150400.9.1
    • spack-man-0.20.3-150400.9.1
  • HPC Module 15-SP4 (noarch)
    • spack-info-0.20.3-150400.9.1
    • spack-recipes-0.20.3-150400.9.1
    • spack-0.20.3-150400.9.1
    • spack-man-0.20.3-150400.9.1
  • HPC Module 15-SP5 (noarch)
    • spack-info-0.20.3-150400.9.1
    • spack-recipes-0.20.3-150400.9.1
    • spack-0.20.3-150400.9.1
    • spack-man-0.20.3-150400.9.1

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