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| author | Axel Huebl <axel.huebl@plasma.ninja> | 2023-01-17 01:06:00 -0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-01-17 10:06:00 +0100 |
| commit | 39ffef83631463e4e0c546d57a8602199ef13aa2 (patch) | |
| tree | 2fdb661ac57a8b810a402ce71e0036e240239ecd | |
| parent | f0672bbaf8446b24e3487c61c67522a3848dfd0a (diff) | |
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Doc: config.yaml mention $env (#34905)
Add one more note on the $env variable in `config.yaml`.
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml | 5 |
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diff --git a/etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml b/etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml index f42a6525e2..535187a739 100644 --- a/etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml +++ b/etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml @@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ config: # are that it precludes its use as a system package and its ability to be # pip installable. # + # In Spack environment files, chaining onto existing system Spack + # installations, the $env variable can be used to download, cache and build + # into user-writable paths that are relative to the currently active + # environment. + # # In any case, if the username is not already in the path, Spack will append # the value of `$user` in an attempt to avoid potential conflicts between # users in shared temporary spaces. |