Disable outdated tpc_spacecharge_downloader task

This task seems no longer needed.

Author: sawenzel

MC/bin/o2dpg_sim_workflow.py

@@ -667,14 +667,6 @@ def getDPL_global_options(bigshm=False, ccdbbackend=True):
 # We download some binary files, necessary for processing
 # Eventually, these files/objects should be queried directly from within these tasks?
 
-# We download trivial TPC space charge corrections to be applied during
-# reco. This is necessary to have consistency (decalibration and calibration) between digitization and reconstruction ... until digitization can
-# also apply this effect via CCDB.
-TPC_SPACECHARGE_DOWNLOADER_TASK = createTask(name='tpc_spacecharge_downloader', cpu='0')
-TPC_SPACECHARGE_DOWNLOADER_TASK['cmd'] = '[ "${O2DPG_ENABLE_TPC_DISTORTIONS}" ] || { ${O2_ROOT}/bin/o2-ccdb-downloadccdbfile --host http://alice-ccdb.cern.ch -p TPC/Calib/CorrectionMapRef --timestamp 1 --created-not-after ' + str(args.condition_not_after) + ' -d ${ALICEO2_CCDB_LOCALCACHE} ; ' \
-   '${O2_ROOT}/bin/o2-ccdb-downloadccdbfile --host http://alice-ccdb.cern.ch -p TPC/Calib/CorrectionMap --timestamp 1 --created-not-after ' + str(args.condition_not_after) + ' -d ${ALICEO2_CCDB_LOCALCACHE} ; }'
-workflow['stages'].append(TPC_SPACECHARGE_DOWNLOADER_TASK)
-
 # Fix (residual) geometry alignment for simulation stage
 # Detectors that prefer to apply special alignments (for example residual effects) should be listed here and download these files.
 # These object will take precedence over ordinary align objects **and** will only be applied in transport simulation
@@ -978,7 +970,7 @@ def putConfigValuesNew(listOfMainKeys=[], localCF = {}):
    CTPSCALER = args.ctp_scaler
    tpcDistortionType=args.tpc_distortion_type
    print(f"TPC distortion simulation: type = {tpcDistortionType}, CTP scaler value {CTPSCALER}");
-   tpcdigineeds=[ContextTask['name'], LinkGRPFileTask['name'], TPC_SPACECHARGE_DOWNLOADER_TASK['name']]
+   tpcdigineeds=[ContextTask['name'], LinkGRPFileTask['name']]
    if usebkgcache:
       tpcdigineeds += [ BKG_HITDOWNLOADER_TASKS['TPC']['name'] ]
 

MC/run/ANCHOR/anchorMC.sh

@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ echo_info "Substituting ALIEN_JDL_LPMPRODUCTIONTAG=$ALIEN_JDL_LPMPRODUCTIONTAG w
 ALIEN_JDL_LPMPRODUCTIONTAG=$ALIEN_JDL_LPMANCHORPRODUCTION
 
 if [[ $ALIEN_JDL_ANCHOR_SIM_OPTIONS == *"--tpc-distortion-type 2"* ]]; then
-  export O2DPG_ENABLE_TPC_DISTORTIONS=ON
   # set the SCALING SOURCE to CTP for MC unless explicitely given from outside
   export ALIEN_JDL_TPCSCALINGSOURCE=${ALIEN_JDL_TPCSCALINGSOURCE:-"CTP"}
 fi