fpm
Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity. (by jordansissel)
Homebrew
By Homebrew
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
fpm
Posts with mentions or reviews of fpm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-08.
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Debian Discusses Vendoring yet Again
If you ever revisit that decision, check out FPM. It can shave off a few of the rough edges related to packaging: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
- Fpm – Packaging Made Simple
- PackagingCon – a conference only for software package management
- Makefile to .deb
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Been adding a little more polish to my Battle Network/ Smash bros inspired game.
The easiest way is probably FPM: https://fpm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Zrok: open-source peer to peer sharing with ability to selfhost
There is definitely a lot more to building a proper package for wider distribution, but there are some great tools out there for folks wanting to get into it that make it more approachable. I've done my fair share with fpm when learning how the proverbial sausage is made.
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Can i create deb file from source code?
Check out https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
- List of Apps I need that are not in repo or flathub
- Can someone point me in the right direction for automating RPM builds?
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What's the deal with Slackware?
I use RedHat based environments for work. I've had good success creating my own yum repo and building RPM packages with Effing package management. FPM can handle packages for most distros so if you want to publish a linux app it is an easy way to provide it in multiple formats.
Homebrew
Posts with mentions or reviews of Homebrew.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Need Help Installing Yarn
For Homebrew though, some tips from here might help if you want to try getting that install to work instead. https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/15077
What are some alternatives?
When comparing fpm and Homebrew you can also consider the following projects:
Linuxbrew
CocoaPods - The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
Homebrew-cask - 🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
omnibus-ruby - Easily create full-stack installers for your project across a variety of platforms.
Berkshelf - A Chef Cookbook manager
distroless - 🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system.
Modulation - Modulation - explicit dependency management for Ruby
tito - A tool for managing rpm based git projects.
shards - Dependency manager for the Crystal language