Telcon: 2023 03 08

Held Wednesday March 8th, 9am PT

This meeting will be Q&A: there are no pre-planned general Spack topics.

Dom: build netcdf with mpi, py-netcdf links against netcdf
- When users run a serial job inside an allocation, there is a failure
- intel-mpi auto-detects if it's in a parallel mode by looking for certain env variables (in this case it sees ones associated with slurm)
- For now, unset all SLURM_... variables
- Jack: intel-mpi setvars.sh sets IMPI_... variables
- Extra note: intel-mpi is external and in spack is listed as an external in packages.yaml
- Davide: could install intel-mpi with Spack
- Note: the users when using py-netcdf don't need the parallel netcdf
  - Peter: given that, can you create an environment with unify: when_possible that requests py-netcdf ^netcdf~mpi and netcdf~mpi?
    - Dom: the modules loaded for netcdf will conflict (i.e. spack will only load one)
Davide: current release date for next 0.19?
- Not currently
- Massimiliano: note that for x.y.z, the .z releases don't include package updates
  - There are ways to use the new packages though
Jack: have a PR https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/34644 with new package versions
- Auto-merge was enabled on this but CI failed
- Massimiliano: there may have been a legitimate failure in a dependent package that needs the modified package
Mark: issue about quote parsing: 35756

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