make test tries to download non-existing file

[giordano]

Describe the bug

Trying to run make test on 71d9c71 I get

parsl/executors/taskvine/install-taskvine.sh
+ [[ -z 7.8.0 ]]
+ TARBALL=cctools-7.8.0-x86_64-ubuntu20.04.tar.gz
+ [[ -f /etc/redhat-release ]]
+ TARBALL=cctools-7.8.0-x86_64-centos8.tar.gz
+ [[ ! -t 1 ]]
+ wget '' '' -O /tmp/cctools.tar.gz https://github.com/cooperative-computing-lab/cctools/releases/download/release/7.8.0/cctools-7.8.0-x86_64-centos8.tar.gz
http://: Invalid host name.
http://: Invalid host name.
--2024-07-25 20:58:39--  https://github.com/cooperative-computing-lab/cctools/releases/download/release/7.8.0/cctools-7.8.0-x86_64-centos8.tar.gz
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 20.26.156.215
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|20.26.156.215|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2024-07-25 20:58:39 ERROR 404: Not Found.

make: *** [/tmp/cctools] Error 8

The file doesn't exist among the assets of https://github.com/cooperative-computing-lab/cctools/releases/tag/release%2F7.8.0

To Reproduce

Follow instructions at

parsl/README.rst

Lines 95 to 107 in 71d9c71

	1. Download Parsl::
	$ git clone https://github.com/Parsl/parsl
	2. Build and Test::
	$ cd parsl # navigate to the root directory of the project
	$ make # show all available makefile targets
	$ make virtualenv # create a virtual environment
	$ source .venv/bin/activate # activate the virtual environment
	$ make deps # install python dependencies from test-requirements.txt
	$ make test # make (all) tests. Run "make config_local_test" for a faster, smaller test set.

Expected behavior

Tests don't fail because they try to download non-existing files.

Environment

• OS: RedHat 7.8
• Python version: 3.11.3
• Parsl version: 71d9c71

Distributed Environment

N/A

[dthain]

Hmm, it would appear that the centos version for 7.8.0 was never generated:
https://github.com/cooperative-computing-lab/cctools/releases/tag/release%2F7.8.0

Let me see what I can do to make it...

[benclifford]

to address this problem more generally, I'd like to move the parsl Makefile from being the worlds lamest package manager. Cooperative Computing Lab has been pretty clear that we should be installing this with conda, and recent work has started to do testing with more focused environments: see the flux tests introduced in #3159 and the kubernetes tests prototyped in PR #3482. Going in that direction we should be testing WQ/TaskVine stuff in a conda environment installed as it should be (and more importantly as our users should be installing the parsl+cctools stack)

[dthain]

Ah, it had slipped my mind that we moved diagonally from centos7 to almalinux8 a few versions back. So switching to that is likely the easiest solution within your CI.

That said, Conda is our preferred install path that gets the dependencies sorted out right. (And we nightly test conda install parsl ndcctools to make sure that is working.)