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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/spack/spack/repository.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/spack/spack/repository.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/repository.py b/lib/spack/spack/repository.py index 3c3ba08bcc..d2fdc937f7 100644 --- a/lib/spack/spack/repository.py +++ b/lib/spack/spack/repository.py @@ -316,6 +316,11 @@ class RepoPath(object): return self.repo_for_pkg(spec).get(spec) + def get_pkg_class(self, pkg_name): + """Find a class for the spec's package and return the class object.""" + return self.repo_for_pkg(pkg_name).get_pkg_class(pkg_name) + + @_autospec def dump_provenance(self, spec, path): """Dump provenance information for a spec to a particular path. @@ -550,7 +555,7 @@ class Repo(object): key = hash(spec) if new or key not in self._instances: - package_class = self._get_pkg_class(spec.name) + package_class = self.get_pkg_class(spec.name) try: copy = spec.copy() # defensive copy. Package owns its spec. self._instances[key] = package_class(copy) @@ -715,7 +720,7 @@ class Repo(object): return self._modules[pkg_name] - def _get_pkg_class(self, pkg_name): + def get_pkg_class(self, pkg_name): """Get the class for the package out of its module. First loads (or fetches from cache) a module for the |