[12.4.X] Add Collier package and use ninja from gosamcontrib for madgraph

[Dominic-Stafford]

Backport of #8809 for use in 2022 production - requested by the Madgraph contacts so these packages can be accessed inside CMSSW in the event of hepforge downtime.

Tested with the Herwig+Madgraph matchbox workflow 539 backported in cms-sw/cmssw#43692

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @Dominic-Stafford for branch IB/CMSSW_12_4_X/master.

@cmsbuild, @aandvalenzuela, @smuzaffar, @iarspider can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@sextonkennedy, @rappoccio, @antoniovilela you are the release manager for this.
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• Backported from madgraph5amcatnlo: use external collier and ninja instead of downloading them #8809

[cmsbuild]

cms-bot internal usage

[smuzaffar]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-dbc2ed/36798/summary.html
COMMIT: 1ff04f2
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_4_X_2024-01-07-0000/el8_amd64_gcc10
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/8930/36798/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 4 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 8 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 51
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3766083
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 8
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3766053
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 50 files compared)
• Checked 212 log files, 167 edm output root files, 51 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[smuzaffar]

+externals

[smuzaffar]

@cms-sw/generators-l2 , any objections on including it for 12.4.X

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next IB/CMSSW_12_4_X/master IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @rappoccio, @sextonkennedy, @antoniovilela (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[antoniovilela]

@cms-sw/generators-l2 , any objections on including it for 12.4.X

@cms-sw/generators-l2
Please have a look and reply.

[smuzaffar]

Backport of #8809

[menglu21]

+1

[antoniovilela]

+1