nfpm/README.md

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!

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.