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-rw-r--r--etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml b/etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml
index f032a64e34..8525947fbd 100644
--- a/etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml
+++ b/etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ config:
- $spack/share/spack/templates
- # default directory layout
+ # Default directory layout
install_path_scheme: "${ARCHITECTURE}/${COMPILERNAME}-${COMPILERVER}/${PACKAGE}-${VERSION}-${HASH}"
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ config:
- $spack/var/spack/stage
- # Cache directory already downloaded source tarballs and archived
+ # Cache directory for already downloaded source tarballs and archived
# repositories. This can be purged with `spack clean --downloads`.
source_cache: $spack/var/spack/cache
@@ -100,15 +100,17 @@ config:
# build_jobs: 4
- # If set to true, spack will use ccache to cache c compiles.
+ # If set to true, Spack will use ccache to cache C compiles.
ccache: false
+
# How long to wait to lock the Spack installation database. This lock is used
- # when spack needs to manage its own package metadata and all operations are
+ # when Spack needs to manage its own package metadata and all operations are
# expected to complete within the default time limit. The timeout should
# therefore generally be left untouched.
db_lock_timeout: 120
+
# How long to wait when attempting to modify a package (e.g. to install it).
# This value should typically be 'null' (never time out) unless the Spack
# instance only ever has a single user at a time, and only if the user