EIC Software Environment Container

Installation Instructions

For installation instructions of eic-shell, see https://github.com/eic/eic-shell.

Updating a package

An individual package is updated on spack package repository along with a spack version upgrade

This situation just requires modifying the eic-shell yaml file.

An individual package is updated on spack package repository after a spack version upgrade

This circumstance requires special cherry pick.

Example: https://eicweb.phy.anl.gov/containers/eic_container/-/merge_requests/879/diffs

In this example, the spack package xrootd had the latest version 5.6.9 which was put in after a spack version upgrade. We had to modify the eic-shell spack.sh file to include the commit hash of the version update from the main spack package repository in addition to modifying the eic-shell yaml file.