WIP: Creating packages for other distributions

Hi,
I didn't find any related articles, so I've decided to start work on one:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Us … tributions
Looking for any input (especially about Fedora/RPM). Even telling me such an article would be useless.
Cheers,
Alad
Last edited by Alad (2014-05-30 20:41:08)

Interesting you should post this today. I just started working on 'porting' makepkg to debian (makedeb). My goal as described here is to have a tool that can turn something very much like a PKGBUILD (DEBBUILD, RPMBUILD) into a package for those distros.
My approach will currently run only on the target distro. So perhaps this is a bit of the inverse of your method (me using arch PKGBUILDs in debian to make a .deb rather than you using a tool in archlinux to make a .deb).
I have a bit of a "proof of concept" example that works as intended here and I've now modified the actual makepkg script from pacman to create a full featured (but yet untested) makedeb script.
I'd love to have a tool to make fully compatible .deb or .rpm packages from within archlinux, but I know very little about those packaging standards, and had grown a bit frustrated with their (lack of and/or confusing) documentation while I was trying figure it out.
Last edited by Trilby (2014-05-31 00:46:02)

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