to avoid deleting spack submodule when updating persistent installations

Eric Müller authored 3 months ago and Eleni Mathioulaki committed 2 months ago

This introduces a submodule for yashchiki.

We need to check if the flexibility of the script is actually needed.
(And how this ever could have worked with a moving target spack ;).)

limited the version selection for the package, updated image pull
policy for the build job in the okd cluster and updated information
for releases

abstracted some more variables and simplified the process
of adding a new site

Final touches. Not using anymore SWIFT as intermediate, copying files directly from gitlab runner to the OpenShift job pod