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Spack Package Recipe

Package recipe defines the logic for package build. Spack follows the instructions and installs the package.

We can start creating package recipe with command,

spack create --name python-cli-app https://github.com/nitinsharmacs/python-cli-app

where --name specifies package name followed by link.

This will create package directory in repo with a boilerplate package.py, selected by spack. We can check the selected repo using command

spack repo list

whichever comes on top takes the precedence.

Following is the modified package.py.

package.py

from spack.package import *
 
 
class PythonCliApp(PythonPackage):
    "Python cli app spack package."
 
    # FIXME: Add a proper url for your package's homepage here.
    homepage = "https://github.com/nitinsharmacs/python-cli-app"
    url = "https://github.com/nitinsharmacs/python-cli-app"
    git = "https://github.com/nitinsharmacs/python-cli-app.git"
 
    # FIXME: Add a list of GitHub accounts to
    # notify when the package is updated.
    # maintainers("nitinsharmacs")
 
    # FIXME: Add the SPDX identifier of the project's license below.
    # See https://spdx.org/licenses/ for a list. Upon manually verifying
    # the license, set checked_by to your Github username.
 
    # FIXME: Add proper versions and checksums here.
    version("0.1.0", tag="v0.1.0")
 
    # FIXME: Add dependencies if required.
    # depends_on("foo")
    depends_on("python@3.10", type=("build", "run"))
    depends_on("py-poetry-core", type="build")

Once all the required information is added in package file, we can install it and use it.

spack install python-cli-app

spack load python-cli-app

This should make executables accessible in the current process.

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