diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/spack/spack/installer.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/installer.py b/lib/spack/spack/installer.py index a2b0220a8b..978296e051 100644 --- a/lib/spack/spack/installer.py +++ b/lib/spack/spack/installer.py @@ -405,9 +405,14 @@ def dump_packages(spec, path): source = spack.store.layout.build_packages_path(node) source_repo_root = os.path.join(source, node.namespace) - # There's no provenance installed for the source package. Skip it. - # User can always get something current from the builtin repo. - if not os.path.isdir(source_repo_root): + # If there's no provenance installed for the package, skip it. + # If it's external, skip it because it either: + # 1) it wasn't built with Spack, so it has no Spack metadata + # 2) it was built by another Spack instance, and we do not + # (currently) use Spack metadata to associate repos with externals + # built by other Spack instances. + # Spack can always get something current from the builtin repo. + if node.external or not os.path.isdir(source_repo_root): continue # Create a source repo and get the pkg directory out of it. |