Easy packaging of application and files.

Installation

Easy and plain installation via gem. It's currently not in the Fedora repositories, but widely distributet in Gem.

    $ gem install fpm

Usage

General

    $ fpm -s <source type> -t <target type> [options]

Package source types:

dir - make a package from directories or files
rpm - make a package from an RPM
gem - make a package from a Rubygem
python - make a package from a python module (via easy_install or local setup.py)
empty - make a package without any files (useful for meta packages and other things)
tar - make a package out of the contents of a tarball
deb - make a package from an existing deb

Target package types:

rpm - produce an RPM
deb - produce a .deb
solaris - produce a solaris package (for use with pkgadd). NB Solaris is not yet implemented in the new API - creation of SVR4 packages currently requires use of version 0.3.x
puppet - produce a puppet module (we should have a closer look at this).

Parameter

'-n': Name
'-a': Architecture (all = noarch)
'-v': Version, -v 1.0

Gems

For some Puppet stuff I had to install automated some GEM packages. Locally there wasn't any gem store available and no time to set one up. So: FPM to the rescue:

    $ sudo su -
    $ root> fpm -s gem -t rpm --rpm-user root -m "Me <nerd@micronerds.org>" passenger
    $ root> fpm -s gem -t rpm --rpm-user root -m "Me <nerd@micronerds.org>" rack
    $ root> fpm -s gem -t rpm --rpm-user root -m "Me <nerd@micronerds.org>" daemon_controller

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This left me three noarch rpm packages I could install on a CentOS 7 system.

The important part here was to run the fpm command as root user. Whenever I tried to create the RPM package as 'me', the files ended up in /home/me/.rvm/..... and where not available for the puppet root process to use later on.