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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/index.rst b/lib/spack/docs/index.rst index 3a5e07ed18..b755f2f376 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/index.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/index.rst @@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ or refer to the full manual below. basic_usage Tutorial: Spack 101 <https://spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io> replace_conda_homebrew - known_issues .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst b/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 0e309f1829..0000000000 --- a/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ -.. Copyright 2013-2022 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other - Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details. - - SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) - -============ -Known Issues -============ - -This is a list of known issues in Spack. It provides ways of getting around these -problems if you encounter them. - ------------------------------------------------- -Spack does not seem to respect ``packages.yaml`` ------------------------------------------------- - -.. note:: - - This issue is **resolved** as of v0.19.0.dev0 commit - `8281a0c5feabfc4fe180846d6fe95cfe53420bc5`, through the introduction of package - requirements. See :ref:`package-requirements`. - -A common problem in Spack v0.18.0 up to v0.19.0.dev0 is that package, compiler and target -preferences specified in ``packages.yaml`` do not seem to be respected. Spack picks the -"wrong" compilers and their versions, package versions and variants, and -micro-architectures. - -This is however not a bug. In order to reduce the number of builds of the same -packages, the concretizer values reuse of installed packages higher than preferences -set in ``packages.yaml``. Note that ``packages.yaml`` specifies only preferences, not -hard constraints. - -There are multiple workarounds: - -1. Disable reuse during concretization: ``spack install --fresh <spec>`` when installing - from the command line, or ``spack concretize --fresh --force`` when using - environments. -2. Turn preferences into constrains, by moving them to the input spec. For example, - use ``spack spec zlib%gcc@12`` when you want to force GCC 12 even if ``zlib`` was - already installed with GCC 10. |