chocolatey-packages

Yum. Chocolatey.

Creating a new Chocolatey Package

~/chocolatey-packages$ choco new {packageName}

This will create a standard directory structure for a chocolatey packageName

Follow the instructions provided in the generated "TODO" file.

Whenever you want to create the package (.nupkg), run:

~/chocolatey-packages/{packageName}$ choco pack

Testing the Chocolatey Package

If you want to, you can test installing the package locally.

~/chocolatey-packages/{packageName}$ choco install {packageName} --debug --verbose --source . 

Deploying the package to the Nexus Repository

Initial Setup

# add the repos as sources
choco source add -n testNexus -s http://10.4.201.12:443/repository/test-repository/
choco source add -n prodNexus -s http://10.4.201.12:443/repository/prod-repository/

#add your API key so that you can upload to the repo
choco apikey -s http://10.4.201.12:443/repository/test-repository/ -k {api_key}
choco apikey -s http://10.4.201.12:443/repository/prod-repository/ -k {api_key}

Pushing the packages to the repo

choco push {packageName} --source {sourceName}