Building a Dockerfile with packages

[johnh]

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Julia packages with Singularity

I just encountered the same problems, and I believe I have found a workable solution. First of all, to the command to do the procompilation during build is Base.compilecache, which is a bit particular in that it requires a package identifier as argument, so I found that e.g. Base.compilecache(Base.identify_package("FileIO")) works to precompile. That being said, for optimal performance the precompilation should probably happen on the system where the container is running, not on the system t…