Packaging Applications

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fpm

The goal of fpm is to make it easy and quick to build packages such as rpms, debs, OSX packages, etc

github: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

docs: https://fpm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

(sudo required on chromebook crostini)

install prerequisites

apt-get install ruby ruby-dev rubygems build-essential

install fpm with gem tool

sudo gem install --no-ri --no-rdoc fpm

test install

fpm --version

Source: dir - Directories Synopsis:

fpm -s dir [other flags] path1 [path2 ...]

The ‘dir’ source will package up one or more directories for you.

Path mapping

Some times you want to take a path and copy it into a package but under a different location. fpm can use the = directive to mark that:

fpm [...] -s dir ./example/foo=/usr/bin

This will put the file foo in the /usr/bin directory inside the package.