spack uninstall --dependents broken #3690
Description
This occurred for me on an older Spack clone, so I'm not sure whether or not it's been fixed already. But I noticed this odd behavior:
$ spack uninstall -y --dependents ncurses
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /hcrkzdn
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected]~doc+ncurses+openssl+ownlibs~qt arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /kbq74gf
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected]+bzip2+curses+git~libunistring+libxml2+tar+xz arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /yiqj5x3
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /eqttirz
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected]+atomic+chrono+date_time~debug+filesystem~graph~icu+iostreams+locale+log+math~mpi+multithreaded+program_options+python+random+regex+serialization+shared+signals~singlethreaded+system~taggedlayout+test+thread+timer+wave arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /aywwnid
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /lbwg7gi
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /gf4j32n
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected]~tk~ucs4 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /r7mn5ia
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /jpjqk36
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /t5eps6o
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /rxq43vd
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /2v3z55j
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected]~tk~ucs4 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /ldubumv
==> Error: Cannot uninstall [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^[email protected]%[email protected]~symlinks arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64
$ spack uninstall -y --dependents ncurses
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /t2szkj7
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /vehx2ab
==> Error: Cannot uninstall [email protected]%[email protected]~symlinks arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64
$ spack uninstall -y --dependents ncurses
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /tfc5zbg
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /ph5tf5y
==> Successfully uninstalled lua-luafilesystem@1_6_3%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /t6vt2td
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /jytyxod
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected] arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /qgxtgq3
==> Successfully uninstalled [email protected]%[email protected]~symlinks arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 /ybsic3i
It seems like Spack isn't paying attention to the order of dependencies when it uninstalls something.