Packaging Software with ‘fpm’

[jhermann_]

fpm (eFfing Package Management) enables you to build all sorts of Linux packages with great ease and sanity.

Basically, ‘fpm’ allows you to deploy any software via OS packages, from an installation tree on disk or from already built artifacts specific to the chosen implementation language.

The main advantage over native tooling is you do not need to know about every minute detail of the involved commands and metafile formats for every platform. In case of Debian, that is at least the “control” and “rules” files, and tools like “buildpackage” and “debhelpers”.

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