update documentation for module soft links (#1335)

* update documentation for module soft links * Update doc/source/PreConfiguredSites.rst Co-authored-by: Dom Heinzeller <[email protected]> * fix fmting --------- Co-authored-by: Dom Heinzeller <[email protected]>
JCSDA · Oct 9, 2024 · e93e887 · e93e887
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@@ -487,6 +487,8 @@ The following instructions install a new spack environment on a pre-configured s
    # Check permissions for systems where non-owning users/groups need access
    ${SPACK_STACK_DIR}/util/check_permissions.sh
 
+To support users who consistently want the latest release, on NOAA RDHPCS tier 1 platforms, soft links pointing to the modulefiles associated with the latest release of the Unified Environment are provided under the main spack-stack directory. The usage consists of ``module use /path/to/spack-stack/latest-ue-<compiler>``, and then loading the spack-stack meta-modules as usual. These soft links should be updated when each release is finalized.
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 .. note::
   You may want to capture the output from :code:`spack concretize` and :code:`spack install` comands in log files.
   For example: