Add packagerepos to spack, allowing for creating multiple package repositories.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/cmd/create.py b/lib/spack/spack/cmd/create.py
index 46e6bcec14..1502942f2c 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/cmd/create.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/cmd/create.py
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ def setup_parser(subparser):
         '-n', '--name', dest='alternate_name', default=None,
         help="Override the autodetected name for the created package.")
     subparser.add_argument(
+        '-p', '--package-repo', dest='package_repo', default=None,
+        help="Create the package in the specified packagerepo.")
+    subparser.add_argument(
         '-f', '--force', action='store_true', dest='force',
         help="Overwrite any existing package file with the same name.")
 
@@ -160,12 +163,21 @@ def create(parser, args):
             tty.die("Couldn't guess a name for this package. Try running:", "",
                     "spack create --name <name> <url>")
 
+    package_repo = args.package_repo
+
     if not valid_module_name(name):
         tty.die("Package name can only contain A-Z, a-z, 0-9, '_' and '-'")
 
     tty.msg("This looks like a URL for %s version %s." % (name, version))
     tty.msg("Creating template for package %s" % name)
 
+    # Create a directory for the new package.
+    pkg_path = spack.db.filename_for_package_name(name, package_repo)
+    if os.path.exists(pkg_path) and not args.force:
+        tty.die("%s already exists." % pkg_path)
+    else:
+        mkdirp(os.path.dirname(pkg_path))
+
     versions = spack.package.find_versions_of_archive(url)
     rkeys = sorted(versions.keys(), reverse=True)
     versions = OrderedDict(zip(rkeys, (versions[v] for v in rkeys)))