Create RPM without rpmbuild

[tcurdt]

According to this a RPM consists of

• lead (deprecated)
• signature
• header
• archive

The archive should be just a gzipped cpio.
An available rpm parser should answer all questions.

[caarlos0]

it was my idea on the beginning, seemed like a lot of work though...

[tcurdt]

it was my idea on the beginning, seemed like a lot of work though...

It doesn't look like that much work to me - but given I am not really using rpm it's a bit hard to find the time to contribute this. I am more interested in #39 at the moment.

[caarlos0]

yeah, I also don't quite use RPMs :P

[tcurdt]

more information on rpm https://github.com/mildred/alien/blob/master/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm

GitHub

mildred/alien

Package converter. Contribute to mildred/alien development by creating an account on GitHub.

[tcurdt]

I made some progress but this is a bit more involved than the deb/apk format :-/

[jarondl]

We are at very early stages, but you should check if https://github.com/google/rpmpack can help you. It still misses some vital stuff (like dependencies), but it should be easy to add.

If you can tell us exactly what you need you can influence the direction of rpmpack

GitHub

google/rpmpack

rpmpack (tar2rpm) - create rpms the easy way. Contribute to google/rpmpack development by creating an account on GitHub.

[caarlos0]

@jarondl awesome!

we use only the basics I believe.

https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm/blob/master/rpm/rpm.go#L306

GitHub

goreleaser/nfpm

NFPM is Not FPM - a simple deb and rpm packager written in Go - goreleaser/nfpm

[caarlos0]

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