boxcutter/fpm repository overview

⁠fpm - packaging made simple

fpm is a tool which lets you easily create packages for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and more!

fpm isn’t a new packaging system, it’s a tool to help you make packages for existing systems with less effort. It does this by offering a command-line interface to allow you to create packages easily. Here are some examples using fpm:

• fpm -s npm -t deb express – Make a Debian package for the nodejs express library
• fpm -s cpan -t rpm Fennec – Make an rpm for the perl Fennec module
• fpm -s dir -t pacman -n fancy ~/.zshrc – Put your ~/.zshrc into an Arch Linux pacman package named “fancy”
• fpm -s python -t freebsd Django – Create a FreeBSD package containing the Python Django library
• fpm -s rpm -t deb mysql.rpm – Convert an rpm to deb

This project has a few important principles which guide development:

• Community: If a newbie has a bad time, it’s a bug.
• Engineering: Make it work, make it right, then make it fast.
• Capabilities: If it doesn’t do a thing today, we can make it do it tomorrow.