Skip check for missing installations when no easystack file is changed

[TopRichard]

Checking for missing installations takes ~ 2m/architecture. This update skips that step when no changes have been made to the easystack files.

[TopRichard]

bot: build repo:eessi.io-2025.06-software instance:eessi-bot-mc-aws for:arch=x86_64/amd/zen2

[eessi-bot-aws]

New job on instance eessi-bot-mc-aws for repository eessi.io-2025.06-software
Building on: amd-zen2
Building for: x86_64/amd/zen2
Job dir: /project/def-users/SHARED/jobs/2026.03/pr_1458/144229

date	job status	comment
Mar 30 14:25:15 UTC 2026	submitted	job id 144229 awaits release by job manager
Mar 30 14:25:54 UTC 2026	released	job awaits launch by Slurm scheduler
Mar 30 14:30:57 UTC 2026	running	job 144229 is running
Mar 30 14:33:00 UTC 2026	finished	😁 SUCCESS (click triangle for details) Details ✅ job output file slurm-144229.out ✅ no message matching FATAL: ✅ no message matching ERROR: ✅ no message matching FAILED: ✅ no message matching required modules missing: ✅ found message(s) matching No missing installations ✅ found message matching .tar.* created! Artefacts eessi-2025.06-software-linux-x86_64-amd-zen2-17748810560.tar.zst size: 0 MiB (22 bytes) entries: 0 modules under 2025.06/software/linux/x86_64/amd/zen2/modules/all no module files in tarball software under 2025.06/software/linux/x86_64/amd/zen2/software no software packages in tarball reprod directories under 2025.06/software/linux/x86_64/amd/zen2/reprod no reprod directories in tarball other under 2025.06/software/linux/x86_64/amd/zen2 no other files in tarball
Mar 30 14:33:00 UTC 2026	test result	😁 SUCCESS (click triangle for details) ReFrame Summary [ OK ] (1/4) EESSI_OSU_coll %benchmark_info=mpi.collective.osu_allreduce %module_name=OSU-Micro-Benchmarks/7.5-gompi-2025a %scale=1_node %device_type=cpu /e4bf9965 @BotBuildTests:x86-64-zen2+default P: latency: 1.33 us (r:0, l:None, u:None) [ OK ] (2/4) EESSI_OSU_coll %benchmark_info=mpi.collective.osu_alltoall %module_name=OSU-Micro-Benchmarks/7.5-gompi-2025a %scale=1_node %device_type=cpu /3da4890b @BotBuildTests:x86-64-zen2+default P: latency: 2.05 us (r:0, l:None, u:None) [ OK ] (3/4) EESSI_OSU_pt2pt_CPU %benchmark_info=mpi.pt2pt.osu_latency %module_name=OSU-Micro-Benchmarks/7.5-gompi-2025a %scale=1_node /3255009a @BotBuildTests:x86-64-zen2+default P: latency: 0.18 us (r:0, l:None, u:None) [ OK ] (4/4) EESSI_OSU_pt2pt_CPU %benchmark_info=mpi.pt2pt.osu_bw %module_name=OSU-Micro-Benchmarks/7.5-gompi-2025a %scale=1_node /59f4b331 @BotBuildTests:x86-64-zen2+default P: bandwidth: 7904.42 MB/s (r:0, l:None, u:None) [ PASSED ] Ran 4/4 test case(s) from 4 check(s) (0 failure(s), 0 skipped, 0 aborted) Details ✅ job output file slurm-144229.out ✅ no message matching ERROR: ✅ no message matching [\s*FAILED\s*].*Ran .* test case

[ocaisa]

While it doesn't actually run the check, this is still starting a CI job. Responsible citizens like us shouldn't do that 😛

[TopRichard]

While it doesn't actually run the check, this is still starting a CI job. Responsible citizens like us shouldn't do that 😛

Fair enough, that is something we could consider improving in the future 😛