Alma9 external

[dingp]

This PR includes all necessary changes in CI workflows, spack recipe files, and release configurations to use the latest version of external software stack.

ext-v2.0 is built for arch linux-almalinux9-x86_64 ext-v1.1 is built for arch linux-scientific7-x86_64 (can be used on both CentOS Steam 8 and AlmaLinux 9)

They both use the same spack version 0.20.0, and the exact same set of versions of external packages. The packages are built with gcc 12.1.0 .

Major updates are:

• grpc is included in the external software stack;
• protobuf has been upgraded (required by grpc );
• gdb has been upgraded (required by AL9, but newer version is also compatible with SL7 and C8);
• inexplicit dependencies of external packages have been updated wherever possible;
• major external package versions remain unchanged (e.g. boost , python etc);
• llvm (for providing clang-tidy and clang-format) and qt (for GUI support in dbe) have also been upgraded.

[dingp]

This should remain as a draft PR before the DAQ is ready to go all in into Almalinux9.

[dingp]

The branch is ready now. New addition included a patch file to remove Felix related packages from he Al9 release. It is applied in the nightly CI workflow for building AL9 nightlies.