CepGen 1.2.1

[forthommel]

This PR bumps the CepGen version to 1.2.1.
It allows to fix the issue observed with the production architecture currently using ROOT version 6.26, along with introducing a few patches to simplify the BuildFile of the new GeneratorInterface/CepGenInterface introduced in cms-sw/cmssw#44072.

Changelog available at https://github.com/cepgen/cepgen/releases/tag/1.2.1.

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @forthommel for branch IB/CMSSW_14_1_X/master.

@iarspider, @aandvalenzuela, @cmsbuild, @smuzaffar can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@sextonkennedy, @antoniovilela, @rappoccio you are the release manager for this.
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[cmsbuild]

cms-bot internal usage

[aandvalenzuela]

please test

[aandvalenzuela]

please test for CMSSW_14_1_ROOT626_X

[cmsbuild]

-1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-e4c8db/37686/summary.html
COMMIT: 6542edb
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_1_ROOT626_X_2024-02-21-2300/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/9033/37686/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

External Build

I found compilation error when building:

warning: line 37: It's not recommended to have unversioned Obsoletes: Obsoletes: lcg+root+6.26.15-8bed6ed430dfd7eef1689cbecd463247
warning: Macro expanded in comment on line 365: %{pkginstroot}/lib

warning: Macro expanded in comment on line 366: %{pkginstroot}

error: line 383: Unknown tag: <<<<<<< HEAD
error: query of specfile /data/cmsbld/jenkins/workspace/ib-run-pr-tests/testBuildDir/tmp/tmpspec-root failed, can't parse
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./pkgtools/cmsBuild", line 4777, in 
    build(opts, args[1:], PKGFactory)
  File "./pkgtools/cmsBuild", line 3984, in build


[forthommel]

This last error on ROOT626 does not seem to be related to this PR.

[aandvalenzuela]

test parameters:

• full_cmssw = true

[aandvalenzuela]

please test for CMSSW_14_1_ROOT626_X

[cmsbuild]

-1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-e4c8db/37689/summary.html
COMMIT: 6542edb
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_1_ROOT626_X_2024-02-21-2300/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/9033/37689/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

External Build

I found compilation error when building:

warning: line 37: It's not recommended to have unversioned Obsoletes: Obsoletes: lcg+root+6.26.15-8bed6ed430dfd7eef1689cbecd463247
warning: Macro expanded in comment on line 365: %{pkginstroot}/lib

warning: Macro expanded in comment on line 366: %{pkginstroot}

error: line 383: Unknown tag: <<<<<<< HEAD
error: query of specfile /data/cmsbld/jenkins/workspace/ib-run-pr-tests/testBuildDir/tmp/tmpspec-root failed, can't parse
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./pkgtools/cmsBuild", line 4777, in 
    build(opts, args[1:], PKGFactory)
  File "./pkgtools/cmsBuild", line 3984, in build


[aandvalenzuela]

please test for CMSSW_14_1_ROOT626_X

• Let's see if the issue is solved

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-e4c8db/37684/summary.html
COMMIT: 6542edb
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_1_X_2024-02-25-2300/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmsdist/9033/37684/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

The following merge commits were also included on top of IB + this PR after doing git cms-merge-topic:

• @epalencia Update UTM to 0.12.0 #9029

You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-e4c8db/37684/git-recent-commits.json
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-e4c8db/37684/git-merge-result

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 6 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 62 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 48
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3245365
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 1189
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3244154
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 47 files compared)
• Checked 200 log files, 161 edm output root files, 48 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[aandvalenzuela]

@forthommel sorry for the back and forth, it seems ROOT626 built fine now

[forthommel]

No worry, @aandvalenzuela! Glad to see this little patch was enough to fix it.

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-e4c8db/37690/summary.html
COMMIT: 6542edb
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_1_ROOT626_X_2024-02-21-2300/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/9033/37690/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

The following merge commits were also included on top of IB + this PR after doing git cms-merge-topic:

• @ossobooker Updates DT Calibration to 14_0_X and includes fixes for the HI workflow cmssw#43963
• @Dr15Jones Add wildcards to generated _cfi.py files cmssw#44013
• @iarspider-cmssw Fix wildcard imports from ROOT (they are forbidden now) cmssw#43974
• @fwyzard Let tests fail gracefully if no devices are found cmssw#44036
• @fabiocos MTD geometry: update pixel index definition from RectangularMTDTopology cmssw#44051
• @missirol print total number of Paths in hltIntegrationTests cmssw#44055
• @mmusich Fix customizeHLTforAlpakaParticleFlowClustering: insert DQM_HcalReconstruction_v only if present in the HLT menu cmssw#44048
• @Mmiglio Update L1Scouting Data Format tests and minor code fixes  cmssw#43984
• @cms-sw Update tag for DataFormats-L1Scouting to V00-02-00 #9031
• @cms-sw Update tag for DataFormats-L1ScoutingRawData to V00-02-00 #9032
• @forthommel CepGen 1.2.0 #9030
• @iarspider Updated root to tip of branch v6-30-00-patches #9026
• @epalencia Update UTM to 0.12.0 #9029

You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-e4c8db/37690/git-recent-commits.json
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-e4c8db/37690/git-merge-result

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 209 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 429 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 48
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3245365
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 20715
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3224628
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 47 files compared)
• Checked 200 log files, 161 edm output root files, 48 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[aandvalenzuela]

Just to confirm, ROOT 6.26 IBs are working fine again! Thanks @forthommel :)

[forthommel]

Fantastic! Sorry for the extra hassle, @aandvalenzuela ! And thanks for your help tracking down the issue to this nasty versioning bug!