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Artifact ID: | c622c7a273ef542208bff67cb7a59760a50b9235 |
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Page Name: | cross package maker |
Date: | 2014-12-14 21:29:49 |
Original User: | mario |
Mimetype: | text/x-markdown |
Parent: | 8e2ba4c2f983e75a5480d4127b92566eefe809b3 (diff) |
Next | 52528c470c8aed0b06f2b650c5d8405235be09d6 |
xpm is currently a personalized branch of fpm (Effing Package Management), which simplifies cross-distro package generation.
It creates or converts between
- Debian
.deb
- RedHat
.rpm
- Node
.npm
- OSX
.pkg
- Ruby
.gem
solaris
packages- plain ZIPs or TARs
and more. See the Howto on common usage.
xpm target/source extensions
This variant (precautiosly renamed for parallel installation) adds a few more modules:
target exe for Windows SFX installers
reader src to consume per-file relative
pack:
specifiers and meta fields from primarily source-based bundlestarget phar which bundles PHP scripts into
.phar
zip/tars with meta fields
ToDo
It's further planned to support:
Multi-target creation
fpm -t deb,rpm,exe
(Not yet sure, but seems feasible.)
Introduce simple filters (semi-build scripts that resemble debian helpers, or quick tasks to reduce manual build scripts)
fpm -m mangz,appdata
(Non-conclusive list.)
Still pondering
And slightly overambitous extensions:
Like a GUI-based cross-distro installer
- Basically a zip, with shell prefix (derived from the existing
sh
target), - But the primary payload being a Python script (
__init__.py
), - Later Perl, Shell as optional fallback,
- xdialog/xmessage/zenity in absence of Tk/gtk/qt bindings for either,
- And one or multiple
.deb
s included - DEBs are for all practical purposes the currently most widely supported format (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint family, OSX flint, OpenWRT ipkg, Windows wpkg.exe)
- Still can be converted to native RPMs on target systems (using
alien
or an included slimfpm
) - Else can easily be just extracted raw with
ar|tar
anyway).
- Basically a zip, with shell prefix (derived from the existing
GitHub
I just don't fancy git. That's all. But this fossil repo will be synced back to https://github.com/prof-milki/xpm once in a while.
Name
Yes, I'm aware xpm
is technically a taken moniker. Just sounded cool. (Though firefox has long abondened them, and Wayland will eradicate xpixmaps anyway... So xpm is just a historic format; moreover libxpm never provide a binary by that name anyway.)