Problem: CIRC UST have confirmed that the version of apptainer on CURC -- 1.5.2-1 -- is subject to the following bug:
apptainer/apptainer#3597
This bug prevents *.sif containers from being built using default methods with apptainer pull and apptainer build. CURC UST confirmed that containers currently cannot be built on CURC without implementing the workaround recommended in the bug report, which is to export the following variable prior to pulling/building a container:
export APPTAINER_IGNORE_PROOT=1
Recommended documentation change:
Affected page(s): https://curc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/software/containerization.html
Add a note to this documentation pointing out that this variable must be set in order to build/pull containers until an update is implemented to Apptainer.
Problem: CIRC UST have confirmed that the version of apptainer on CURC -- 1.5.2-1 -- is subject to the following bug:
apptainer/apptainer#3597
This bug prevents *.sif containers from being built using default methods with
apptainer pullandapptainer build. CURC UST confirmed that containers currently cannot be built on CURC without implementing the workaround recommended in the bug report, which is to export the following variable prior to pulling/building a container:export APPTAINER_IGNORE_PROOT=1Recommended documentation change:
Affected page(s): https://curc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/software/containerization.html
Add a note to this documentation pointing out that this variable must be set in order to build/pull containers until an update is implemented to Apptainer.