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Dom Heinzeller edited this page Dec 26, 2025 · 22 revisions

Developer and advanced user documentation

The following documentation aims at developers and advanced users of spack-stack.

spack-stack is a mainly a collection of Spack configuration files, including common and site-specific configurations for compilers, modules, and packages. Templates are used to install environments for specific applications or users. A spack extension to simplify the installation process is provided in spack-ext. This extension is registered with a fork of the spack engine in the Git submodule spack. Most package recipes reside in a fork of the spack-packages repository in the Git submodule repos/builtin. Additional packages that are not suitable for inclusion in the authoritative spack-packages repository can be found in repos/spack-stack.

Directory layout

./
  cache/                        # Temporary data (created by spack)
  configs/
    common/                     # Config for all sites and environments
    containers/                 # Container recipes, currently not used
    sites/                      # Tier-1 and tier-2 site configurations
    templates/                  # Environment templates
  envs/                         # Default directory for spack environments
  LICENSE
  README.md
  repos/
    builtin/                    # Fork of upstream spack-packages repo
    spack-stack/                # Additional packages
  setup.sh                      # Sourced to activate spack/spack-stack
  spack/                        # Fork of upstream spack engine repo
  spack-ext/                    # Extension of spack with tests
  util/                         # Miscellaneous utilities and scripts

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