using --include-easyblocks-from-pr together with a local easyconfig file fails

[boegel]

Example:

$ ls ABAQUS-2019.eb
ABAQUS-2019.eb

$ eb ABAQUS-2019.eb --installpath /tmp/$USER --include-easyblocks-from-pr 2034
...
ERROR: Can't find path /tmp/eb-d2fKqd/tmpA9Jiv_/easybuilders/ABAQUS-2019.eb

Using absolute path to easyconfig instead via eb $PWD/AABQUS-2019.eb ... does work...

[migueldiascosta]

It seems this is actually not only related to --include-easyblocks-from-pr...

For instance, if you mix that local file with files from --from-pr, you get the same behaviour, but it seems it never came up before (?) because that's a weird scenario

The workaround is either to use the absolute path as @boegel mentioned, or to add the folder where the local easyconfig is to the robot path, e.g. in this case with -r .

Now, the reason this happens is that the extract_file method, called from download_repo, changes the working directory (see also #2858), and in fact everything that comes after download_repo seems to rely on that...

[boegel]

@migueldiascosta I'm changing download_repo so it doesn't have the side effect of changing directories anymore in #3486

As far as I can tell, nothing that calls download_repo relies on the changing of directories at all?
The explicit change_dir is just a change we made as a part of #3292 when we changed extract_file...