Merge pull request #259 from lanl/rberger_gh_action_for_spackages

Add GitHub action to update spackages 🤖

.github/workflows/deps.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+name: Check Spack dependencies for updates
+
+on:
+  # for manual jobs
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  # triggers at around 15:00 UTC (with some delay)
+  schedule:
+   - cron: '0 15 * * *'
+
+jobs:
+    deps:
+      name:
+      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+      steps:
+        - name: Checkout this repo
+          uses: actions/checkout@v3
+          with:
+            fetch-depth: 0
+        - name: create build
+          run: mkdir build
+        - name: Checkout ports-of-call
+          uses: actions/checkout@v3
+          with:
+            repository: lanl/ports-of-call
+            path: build/ports-of-call
+            fetch-depth: 0
+        - name: Checkout spiner
+          uses: actions/checkout@v3
+          with:
+            repository: lanl/spiner
+            path: build/spiner
+            fetch-depth: 0
+        - name: copy over spack-repo/packages
+          run: |
+            # assume ports-of-call may be newer than spiner
+            cp -R build/spiner/spack-repo/packages/* spack-repo/packages/
+            cp -R build/ports-of-call/spack-repo/packages/* spack-repo/packages/
+        - name: is there a difference?
+          run: git diff --exit-code --compact-summary
+          id: no_change
+        - name: create branch
+          if: ${{ steps.no_change.conclusion == 'failure' }}
+          run: |
+            git config user.name 'github-actions[bot]'
+            git config user.email 'github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com'
+            git branch -D github-bot/update_spackages || true
+            git checkout -b github-bot/update_spackages
+            git add spack-repo
+            git commit -m "spack updates"
+            git push -f --set-upstream origin github-bot/update_spackages
+        - name: create pull request
+          if: ${{ steps.no_change.conclusion == 'failure' }}
+          run: gh pr create -B main -H github-bot/update_spackages --title 'Update spackages' --body 'Created by Github action'
+          env:
+            GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/docs.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
 
       steps:      
         - name: Checkout code
-          uses: actions/checkout@v2
+          uses: actions/checkout@v3
           with:
             fetch-depth: 0
             submodules: recursive

.github/workflows/formatting.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
 
       steps:      
         - name: Checkout code
-          uses: actions/checkout@v2
+          uses: actions/checkout@v3
         - name: Set system to non-interactive mode
           run: export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
         - name: install dependencies

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
 
       steps:
         - name: Checkout code
-          uses: actions/checkout@v2
+          uses: actions/checkout@v3
           with:
             submodules: recursive
         - name: Set system to non-interactive mode

.github/workflows/tests_minimal.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
 
       steps:
         - name: Checkout code
-          uses: actions/checkout@v2
+          uses: actions/checkout@v3
           with:
             submodules: recursive
         - name: Set system to non-interactive mode

doc/sphinx/src/contributing.rst

@@ -122,6 +122,11 @@ submit issues on the relevant github pages. However, if you can't
 figure out where an issue belongs, no big deal. Submit where you can
 and we'll engage with you to figure out how to proceed.
 
+.. note::
+   There are scheduled workflows triggered by GitHub actions that will
+   automatically check ``spiner`` and ``ports-of-call`` for Spack updates.  If
+   detected, the GitHub action bot will create a PR with the necessary changes.
+
 Process for adding a new EOS
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