DEBs

DEBs are built for Ubuntu and Debian. The packaging files are located in packaging/deb/.

RPMs

RPMs are built for CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, and OpenSUSE. The packaging file is located in packaging/rpm/poplog.spec.tmpl, this is first run through a preprocessor to inject the current version number before being used to build an RPM.

Further info

• DEB required files
• RPM packaging guide (check this out if you're not familiar with building RPMs)
• RPM Guide: An introduction to package management (another comprehensive guide on packaging for RPM)
• RPM macro syntax (Fedora's RPM guide has quite good info on different macros)
• RPM dist macros for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora (macros for conditioning on distribution version)
• RPM dist macros for OpenSUSE (macros for conditioning on distribution version)

Open Build System

The Open Build System (OBS) is used to build .rpm and .deb poplog packages for a variety of distributions. After these have been built, OBS also hosts them for users to download via a repository server.

For users, check out the instructions for installing from a repo.

For developers, check out the repo.

Further info

• OBS manual (a good starting point)
• OBS wiki pages (a list of many wiki pages for OBS related things)
• OBS wiki: Debian build info (info on how OBS builds deb packages)
• OBS source code (if you need to see exactly what OBS is doing)
• AppImage docs: building on OBS and OBS wiki: AppImage build info