add support for specifying dependencies required to obtain source files via source_deps easyconfig parameter

[PetrKralCZ]

(created using eb --new-pr)

[PetrKralCZ]

When testing on Geneformer with git-lfs in source_deps:

ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/user/gent/453/vsc45304/easybuild/easybuild-framework/easybuild/main.py", line 137, in build_and_install_software
    (ec_res['success'], app_log, err) = build_and_install_one(ec, init_env)
    File "/user/gent/453/vsc45304/easybuild/easybuild-framework/easybuild/framework/easyblock.py", line 4295, in build_and_install_one
    result = app.run_all_steps(run_test_cases=run_test_cases)
    File "/user/gent/453/vsc45304/easybuild/easybuild-framework/easybuild/framework/easyblock.py", line 4174, in run_all_steps
    self.run_step(step_name, step_methods)
    File "/user/gent/453/vsc45304/easybuild/easybuild-framework/easybuild/framework/easyblock.py", line 4009, in run_step
    step_method(self)()
    File "/user/gent/453/vsc45304/easybuild/easybuild-framework/easybuild/framework/easyblock.py", line 2387, in fetch_step
    self.modules_tool.load(source_deps_mod_names)
    File "/user/gent/453/vsc45304/easybuild/easybuild-framework/easybuild/tools/modules.py", line 696, in load
    self.run_module('load', mod)
    File "/user/gent/453/vsc45304/easybuild/easybuild-framework/easybuild/tools/modules.py", line 827, in run_module
    full_cmd = ' '.join(cmd_list)
TypeError: sequence item 3: expected str instance, NoneType found

[boegel]

@PetrKralCZ How are you specifying source_deps exactly in your Geneformer easyconfig?

[PetrKralCZ]

@PetrKralCZ How are you specifying source_deps exactly in your Geneformer easyconfig?

source_deps = [
    ('git-lfs', '3.5.1', '', SYSTEM),
]

[boegel]

We should make sure that entries in source_deps are also reported in the output produced by eb example.eb -Dr...

[boegel]

Fails with --fetch:

  File "/tmp/vsc40023/easybuild-framework/easybuild/framework/easyblock.py", line 2387, in fetch_step
    self.modules_tool.load(source_deps_mod_names)
  File "/tmp/vsc40023/easybuild-framework/easybuild/tools/modules.py", line 696, in load
    self.run_module('load', mod)
  File "/tmp/vsc40023/easybuild-framework/easybuild/tools/modules.py", line 814, in run_module
    self.log.debug('Current MODULEPATH: %s' % os.environ.get('MODULEPATH', '<unset>'))
AttributeError: 'NoModulesTool' object has no attribute 'log'

In that case there's no real ModulesTool instance in place, only a fake one (that's done in tools/options.py, via self.options.modules_tool = None).
That's... annyoing :)

[boegel]

@PetrKralCZ Before trying to load modules, we need to take into account that self.modules_tool may be a NoModulesTool instance (that will be the case when eb --fetch is used).

If so, then we need to re-initialize self.modules_tool to a proper ModulesTool instance (via the modules_tool function available in tools/config.py).

This will need changes in options.py too though, because there we're now overwriting self.options.modules_tool with None, we also need to keep track of the original value so we can then pass it to the modules_tool function (which will also need to be adjusted)...