Chocolatey packages

This repo contains the source for various Chocolatey packages

Changing the packages

• Change the files
• Build the package: choco pack
• Test the package (as administrator): choco install [packageName] -dv -s .

Maintaining packages

• Create a Chocolatey account
• Create an API key in the [account] (https://community.chocolatey.org/account)
• Optionally, for creating packages local, configure the [API key] (https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/create/commands/api-key), then inside the directory of the package execute choco pack to package the nupkg and choco push to push the package to the Chocolatey server.
• Create some public Git repository with a directory for the package, or copy one of my existing directories to your repository
• For GitHub actions configure an [environment] (https://github.com/johanjanssen/ChocolateyPackages/settings/environments) for example called Push-Packages with the environment secret CHOCOLATEY_API_KEY
• Now create GitHub workflows, such as for example the ones I used.
• Note that the update-chocolatey-packages.yml only works to automatically update some packages, details can be found in the updater folder. For example it doesn't work for Microsoft packages as I couldn't find an API to automate the process, nowadays the [Disco API] (https://github.com/foojayio/discoapi) could be used.
• To manually update an existing package:
  • Change the version field in the *.nuspec file
  • Change the url and checksum in the chocolateyinstall.ps1 in the tools directory for MSI files
  • Alternatively, change all the *.ps1 files in the tools directory for zip files
• To create new packages
  • Copy an existing package directory
  • Change the id, version, packageSourceUrl and title and other fields if needed in the *.nuspec file. I also recommend changing the name of the *.nuspec file, so it's easier to recognize in an editor when you're working on multiple packages
  • Change the url and checksum in the chocolateyinstall.ps1 in the tools directory for MSI files
  • Alternatively, change all the *.ps1 files in the tools directory for zip files

Notes

• Packages are approved by moderators, if packages are trusted this goes automatically. If a package is not trusted it can take some time.