Install SHPC with spack

[dipietrantonio]

Might go within the utils environment.

[marcodelapierre]

agree, same as singularity

[marcodelapierre]

note: has to be at least version 0.1.16 (to provide support for online registries and the full biocontainers collection)

I have tested 0.1.18 myself on Setonix, although it looks like newer versions only have small changes (so should still work)

[marcodelapierre]

note also that spack develop and v0.20.x have my recipe for singularity-hpc, as well as a couple of required dependencies.
the registry of recipes will need to be manyally git cloned and checked out somewhere locally if we want maximum reproducibility. otherwise these newer shpc versions can point to the remote github registry.

[marcodelapierre]

ping me for anything :)

[marcodelapierre]

finally, it will be great to update to shpc 0.1.16 or later as soon as feasible (I mean, along with the spack new deployment), as it will enable life science researchers to readily install 8000+ biocontainers.

[dipietrantonio]

Thanks for the pointers, Marco. Indeed I thought SHPC had been updated. @ddeeptimahanti seems like there are some packages that you missed during the version updates.. please double check.

[dipietrantonio]

SHPC version updated: 540fbd6

[ddeeptimahanti]

@dipietrantonio I updated only those packages which had issues with the tags.

[ddeeptimahanti]

So, with this new version, we need to check all of them again. I'll look into that.