Spack: `spack versions` picking up URL from patch list

[adamjstewart]

I'm seeing some strange behavior with the nwchem package. If you hack the package to add:

url = "http://www.nwchem-sw.org/images/Nwchem-6.6.revision27746-src.2015-10-20.tar.gz"

and run:

$ spack versions nwchem
==> Error: Couldn't detect version in: http://www.nwchem-sw.org/images/Notdir_fc.patch.gz

This URL comes from urls_for_patches. Any idea why it would be picked up instead of the package-level url?

[davydden]

maybe @alalazo has an idea, he fixed patches in https://github.com/LLNL/spack/pull/2039

[alalazo]

Whoa, I missed this and it dates back to February! Confirmed.