Trying to use caches it is more portable to other types of runners

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -35,33 +35,39 @@ variables:
     - stack
   variables:
     COMMAND_OPTIONS_SBATCH: ${slurm_options}
-    APPTAINER_EXEC_OPTIONS: ${apptainer_options} --bind ${BUILDCACHE}:/buildcache:rw --bind ${SPACK_PATH}:/spack:rw --bind ${STACK_PATH}:/stack:rw --writable-tmpfs
+    APPTAINER_EXEC_OPTIONS: ${apptainer_options} --bind ${BUILDCACHE}:/buildcache:rw --bind ${STACK_PATH}:/stack:rw --writable-tmpfs
     SPACK_DISABLE_LOCAL_CONFIG: "true"
     SPACK_USER_CACHE_PATH: "/tmp/spack_cache_${CI_JOB_ID}"
     SPACK_SITE_CONFIG_PATH: "/stack/spack/etc"
     BUILDCACHE: "/work/scitas-ge/richart/ci/buildcache"
-    SPACK_PATH: "/work/scitas-ge/richart/ci/${environment}/spack"
     STACK_PATH: "/work/scitas-ge/richart/ci/${environment}/stack"
 
+
+.spack_cache:
+  - key: ${environment}-spack-cache
+      policy: pull-push
+      untracked: true
+
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 spack:setup:
   stage: environment
   extends:
+    - .spack_cache
     - .parallel_job
   script:
     - SPACK_VERSION=$(jq -r .spack.version config.json)
 
     - |
-      if [ ! -d /spack/spack ]; then
-        git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git -b $SPACK_VERSION /spack/spack
+      if [ ! -d spack ]; then
+        git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git -b $SPACK_VERSION spack
       else
-        cd /spack/spack
+        cd spack
         git fetch
         git checkout $SPACK_VERSION
         cd -
       fi
 
-    - /spack/spack/bin/spack gpg trust $GPG_PRIVATE_KEY
+    - spack/bin/spack gpg trust $GPG_PRIVATE_KEY
 
     - |
       mkdir -p /stack/extra_repos/
@@ -86,7 +92,7 @@ spack:setup:
 
     - |
       if [ ! -d /buildcache/build_cache ]; then
-        /spack/spack/bin/spack gpg publish -d /buildcache
+        spack/bin/spack gpg publish -d /buildcache
       fi
 
     - mkdir -p /stack/spack/etc
@@ -103,19 +109,20 @@ spack:setup:
 spack:install_compilers:
   stage: compilers
   extends:
+    - .spack_cache
     - .parallel_job
   script:
     - COMPILER_LIST_SPECS=$(jq -r '.stack | .core_compiler as $core | .compilers | map("\(.spec)@\(.version) %\($core)")[]' config.json)
     - echo "Compilers to install ${COMPILER_LIST_SPECS}"
 
-    - /spack/spack/bin/spack spec
+    - spack/bin/spack spec
       --install-status
       --namespaces
       --long
       --types
       ${COMPILER_LIST_SPECS}
 
-    - /spack/spack/bin/spack install
+    - spack/bin/spack install
       --log-file spack-install.xml
       --log-format junit
       --fail-fast
@@ -123,7 +130,7 @@ spack:install_compilers:
       --use-cache
       ${COMPILER_LIST_SPECS}
 
-    - /spack/spack/bin/spack buildcache create
+    - spack/bin/spack buildcache create
       --update-index
       --key EDC904DCE3D2E84E
       /buildcache ${COMPILER_LIST_SPECS}
@@ -131,12 +138,12 @@ spack:install_compilers:
     - |
       echo 'definitions: [ compilers: [' ${COMPILER_LIST_SPECS} ']]' > compiler_definitions.yaml
 
-    - /spack/spack/bin/spack compiler find --scope site /usr
+    - spack/bin/spack compiler find --scope site /usr
 
     - |
       while read -r compiler
       do
-        /spack/spack/bin/spack compiler find --scope site $(/spack/spack/bin/spack location -i ${compiler})
+        spack/bin/spack compiler find --scope site $(spack/bin/spack location -i ${compiler})
       done <<< $(echo "${COMPILER_LIST_SPECS}")
   artifacts:
     reports:
@@ -147,9 +154,10 @@ spack:install_compilers:
 spack:concretize:
   stage: concretize
   extends:
+    - .spack_cache
     - .parallel_job
   script:
-    - /spack/spack/bin/spack -e . concretize
+    - spack/bin/spack -e . concretize
   needs:
     - job: spack:install_compilers
   artifacts:
@@ -159,9 +167,10 @@ spack:concretize:
 spack:install:
   stage: install
   extends:
+    - .spack_cache
     - .parallel_job
   script:
-    - /spack/spack/bin/spack -e . install
+    - spack/bin/spack -e . install
       --log-file spack-install.xml
       --log-format junit
       --only-concrete