Add command-line option to force rebuilding specific packages

[TimoWilken]

This is an alternative to adding force_rebuild: true to the alidist recipe, so that alidist doesn't have to be changed.

Example:

aliBuild build O2Physics --defaults o2 --force-rebuild O2 --force-rebuild O2Physics

(You can specify multiple packages to rebuild by giving the option multiple times. This makes it consistent with how --disable works.)

@adriansev: could you check whether this does what you need?

[adriansev]

at least from description is what i need, but to actually install the alibuild in devel mode to check it out it will take some time ..
as a side comment, i'm surprised about the comment related to --disable i thought that it worked with --disable package1,package2,..

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[TimoWilken]

at least from description is what i need, but to actually install the alibuild in devel mode to check it out it will take some time ..

OK, thanks @adriansev! Let me know when you've had time to try it.

as a side comment, i'm surprised about the comment related to --disable i thought that it worked with --disable package1,package2,..

You're right, that does work. I've made it consistent in the latest commit, so you can use --force-rebuild O2,O2Physics as well.

[adriansev]

so, i will just leave here as a log the problems encountered and at the end i will ping you...
so, installing with :
python3 -m pip install git+file:///home/physics-tools/alice/alibuild@test756
where test756 is the branch with the PR #756
gave me:

Building wheels for collected packages: alibuild
  Building wheel for alibuild (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for alibuild: filename=alibuild-LAST_TAG-py3-none-any.whl size=74958 sha256=a9f78247af9dc3c47718fae8b3e182e585ec4e0d49944c9733d8614d8f1ce9d1
  Stored in directory: /home/adrian/tmp/pip-ephem-wheel-cache-hdvovsx0/wheels/d9/cd/43/19c7e89174be81cc63b9f34d94338526fc22dcdf3a024cb13f
  WARNING: Built wheel for alibuild is invalid: Metadata 1.2 mandates PEP 440 version, but 'LAST-TAG' is not
Failed to build alibuild
Installing collected packages: alibuild
  Attempting uninstall: alibuild
    Found existing installation: alibuild 1.11.1
    Uninstalling alibuild-1.11.1:
      Successfully uninstalled alibuild-1.11.1
  Running setup.py install for alibuild ... done
  DEPRECATION: alibuild was installed using the legacy 'setup.py install' method, because a wheel could not be built for it. A possible replacement is to fix the wheel build issue reported above. Discussion can be found at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8368

moreover, something is wrong with the shebang adaptation as i got this:

head  /home/adrian/.local/bin/aliBuild
#!python
from __future__ import print_function
import os
import sys

after modification by hand to a proper line (#!/usr/bin/env python3) the building started successfully

[adriansev]

@TimoWilken i can confirm that it works as advertised: after the initial build, another build command will tell me that Packages already built using this version but with force-rebuild it will actually rebuild the package. Thanks a lot!

[ktf]

Does this mean it will not support comma separated lists anymore? I do not think this is acceptable.

[TimoWilken]

No, 2ebab24 fixes this so that --no-devel and --force-rebuild work like --disable (in that --disable A,B and --disable A --disable B are equivalent).

[ktf]

Does this mean it will not support comma separated lists anymore? I do not think this is acceptable.

[TimoWilken]

I've released v1.11.3 with this change.