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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/build_settings.rst b/lib/spack/docs/build_settings.rst index de580a3289..3ab38dd4da 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/build_settings.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/build_settings.rst @@ -531,3 +531,25 @@ directories inside the install prefix. This will ensure that even manually placed files within the install prefix are owned by the assigned group. If no group is assigned, Spack will allow the OS default behavior to go as expected. + +---------------------------- +Assigning Package Attributes +---------------------------- + +You can assign class-level attributes in the configuration: + +.. code-block:: yaml + + packages: + mpileaks: + # Override existing attributes + url: http://www.somewhereelse.com/mpileaks-1.0.tar.gz + # ... or add new ones + x: 1 + +Attributes set this way will be accessible to any method executed +in the package.py file (e.g. the ``install()`` method). Values for these +attributes may be any value parseable by yaml. + +These can only be applied to specific packages, not "all" or +virtual packages. |