NFPM is Not FPM - a simple deb and rpm packager written in Go.
## Goals
* be simple to use
* provide packaging for the most common linux packaging systems (at very least deb and rpm)
* be distributed as a single binary
* reproducible results
* depend on the fewer external things as possible (namely `rpmbuild`)
* generate packages based on yaml files (maybe also json and toml?)
* be possible to use it as a lib in other go projects (namely [goreleaser] itself)
[goreleaser]: https://goreleaser.com/#linux_packages.nfpm
## Usage
The first steps are to run `nfpm init` to initialize a config file and edit
the generated file according to your needs:
The next step is to run `nfpm pkg --target mypkg.deb`.
NFPM will guess which packager to use based on the target file extension.
And that's it!
## Usage as lib
You can look at the code of nfpm itself to see how to use it as a library, or, take
a look at the [nfpm piper on GoReleaser](https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/tree/master/pipeline/nfpm).
> **Attention**: GoReleaser `deb` packager only compiles with go1.10+.
## Status
* both deb and rpm packaging are working but there are some missing features;
* we need a suite of acceptance tests to make sure everything works.
## Donate
Donations are very much appreciated! You can donate/sponsor on the main
[goreleaser opencollective](https://opencollective.com/goreleaser)! It's
easy and will surely help the developers at least buy some ☕️ or 🍺!
## Stargazers over time
[](https://starcharts.herokuapp.com/goreleaser/nfpm)
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Would you like to fix something in the documentation? Feel free to open an [issue](https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm/issues).
