Settings

Most defaults should work without changing, however you will likely want to customize settings in the case that you are deploying packages (as a developer) or if you want to install from a different trusted registry (as a user).

Updating Settings

To change defaults you can either edit the settings.yml file in the installation directory at pakages/settings.yml or create a user-specific configuration by doing:

$ pakages config init
Created user settings file /home/vanessa/.pakages/settings.yml

You can then change a setting, such as the username and email for your gpg key (used to sign the build cache artifacts):

$ pakages config set username:dinosaur
Updated username to be dinosaur
$ pakages config set email:dinosaur@users.noreply.github.io
Updated email to be dinosaur@users.noreply.github.io

These user settings will over-ride the default installation ones.

Settings Table

The following variables can be configured in your user settings:

Title

Name	Description	Default
username	A username to use to sign packages (only required when using build)	Defaults to your $USER
email	An email to use to sign packages (only required when using build)	Defaults to $USER@users.noreply.spack.io
trusted_packages_org	The trusted packages GitHub organization to install from	pakages
trusted_packages_registry	The default trusted packages GitHub organization to push to. If no push registries are provided, we fallback to push here.	ghcr.io/pakages
trusted_pull_registries	One or more registries to pull from.	[ghcr.io/pakages]
cache_dir	A default cache directory to use - will only be cleaned up for build using --force	unset
default_tag	The default tag to use to push artifacts.	latest
content_type	The default content type for the spack package (not recommended to change)	application/vnd.spack.package

Note that we will be extending settings to include allowing more than one trusted registry to be added, and they will be queried in the order they are provided. We will also separate the trusted packages registry to use for install from a default to push, as they could easily be different. These variables will also be added for customization on the command line (not added yet).