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The following error was triggered when an existing environment’s dependencies were modified in the spack.yaml:

[root@d513c5c7de56 ACCESS-OM3]# spack concretize -f
==> Error: concretization failed for the following reasons:

   1. cannot satisfy a requirement for package 'access-om3-nuopc'.

or

==> Error: concretization failed for the following reasons:

   1. No valid value for variant 'deterministic' of package 'access-om2'

When re-concretizing, remember to use the --fresh argument:

 spack concretize -f --fresh