Build RPM/DEB/Arch Packages

[dhollinger]

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[rnelson0]

It’s pretty ugly, but I use this to build some RPMs for other projects. Adding other output formats is easy, just need to know how to generate the not-yet-a-package in a temporary directory. https://github.com/rnelson0/build_reference

[ekohl]

https://github.com/fedora-ruby/gem2rpm is probably the easiest way to build RPMs.

[mterzo]

I’m using fpm to build rpms.

https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/blob/master/README.rst

[bastelfreak]

For Archlinux I would use https://github.com/anatol/gem2arch

[rnelson0]

Is there a particular reason to use gem2rpm and gem2arch vs fpm which can do both? I am sure there are differences in the generated packages but am not aware of how that impacts the results.

[bastelfreak]

gem2arch is a more common approach to create archlinux packages, fpm isn't. So I would use gem2arch to do it.

[ekohl]

fpm create very ugly packages that technically work, but that's it. They're far from native packages where the gem2* packages create packages that could actually pass a review from other packagers.

[alexjfisher]

I've used fpm too. Great for in-house packages. Not so good for packages we want to distribute.