Sure, but we could have our own petsc-centric tests triggered by gitlab CI 
also


> On Jun 10, 2019, at 4:51 PM, Balay, Satish <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev wrote:
> 
>> 
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>>> On Jun 10, 2019, at 4:33 PM, Balay, Satish <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> now configure needs to know and support full spack build and query all the 
>>> dependency info from spack..
>> 
>>  We could have some test cases where PETSc is also built by spack, which 
>> presumably works and would also test petsc-spack
> 
> this is xsdk test suite.. [right now it just does a build test - but have to 
> add example tests to spack]
> 
> Satish
>> 
>>> 
>>> For now - I'll try out a simpler model [i.e manually rebuild as needed]
>> 
>>  Not for long you don't, we have better things to do with your time.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Satish
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev wrote:
>>> 
>>>> That seems ok. We could also overload --download-mpich=spack for anal 
>>>> people like me :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Somehow we also need to let configure know where the spack configuration 
>>>> is. 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 10, 2019, at 4:21 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> "Smith, Barry F." <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yes, spack could be used to do this. I guess essentially Buildsystem 
>>>>>> would issues commands to spack on each "prebuilt" package each time it 
>>>>>> runs in test mode (using the URL in the package file?)  and after the 
>>>>>> first time spack would ignore the commands since it already had the 
>>>>>> version ready. I could use this on my machine also. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Barry
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --spack-mpich etc ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Would --with-mpich=spack be confusing?
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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