NFPM

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)

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.

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! It's easy and will surely help the developers at least buy some ☕️ or 🍺!

Stargazers over time

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Would you like to fix something in the documentation? Feel free to open an issue.