Passing --without-view flag to spack

[jbadwaik]

I'm currently trying to use ramble on easybuild systems and as a first step, I'm thinking of using the --without-view option for spack env create to use the environment variables set by easybuild. Once that setup works, then I can start exploring the next steps.

However, I am not sure how to pass this environment variable to spack. Is there anything I can set in a yaml file to help the process along? Thanks

[douglasjacobsen]

@jbadwaik I'd be really interested in ways we could support easybuild better. So, if you have any suggestions please let us know.

As an aside, I just pushed a draft PR (#417) where you can ramble config add 'config:spack:env_create:flags:"--without-view"

You can even set this within the workspace config if you want, i.e.

ramble:
  config:
    spack:
      env_create:
        flags: --without-view

Let me know if this helps you out.

[jbadwaik]

@douglasjacobsen Thanks a lot for the PR and the support. We are now trying this out along with a couple of other things and will let you know how it goes. In the meantime, I'm also thinking of what might be helpful to use ramble directly with spack

[douglasjacobsen]

No problem. Feel free to let us know if you need any more help. :)