On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 10:49:54PM -0400, John Sellens via talk wrote: > I've long found that making linux packages seems to be more > complicated than I might have hoped. > > To build RPMs, you typically use rpmbuild(8) which uses a set pf > diretories (SOURCES, SPECS, BUILDROOT, RPMS, ...) to build rpms. > > But you might have a look at "fpm" - the "effing" package manager. > > https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm > https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-fpm-to-easily-create-packages-in-multiple-formats > > I find creating RPM repositories relatively simple - createrepo(8) > (or possibly createrepo_c(8)) feel straightforward to me. GPG package > signing is not too hard. I find deb/apt repositories to be more involved.
dpkg-scanpackages can create repos for debian quite easily, although not in the full structure of the official repos which are done with different tools. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
