nfpm

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NFPM

NFPM is Not FPM - a simple deb and rpm packager written in Go.

Why

While fpm is great, for me it is a bummer that it depends on Ruby, tar and probably other software.

I wanted something that could be used as a binary and/or as a lib on go-software, so I hacked this together and it works!

Goals

• be simple to use
• provide packaging for the most common linux packaging systems (at very least deb and rpm)
• be distributed as a single binary
• reproducible results
  • depend on the fewer external things as possible (namely rpmbuild)
  • generate packages based on yaml files (maybe also json and toml?)
• be possible to use it as a lib in other go projects (namely goreleaser itself)
• support complex packages and power users

Usage

The first steps are to run nfpm init to initialize a config file and edit the generated file according to your needs:

The next step is to run nfpm pkg --target mypkg.deb. NFPM will guess which packager to use based on the target file extension.

And that's it!

Usage as a docker image

You can run it with docker as well:

docker run --rm \
  -v $PWD:/tmp/pkg \
  goreleaser/nfpm pkg --config /tmp/pkg/foo.yml --target /tmp/pkg/foo.rpm

That's it!

Usage as lib

You can look at the code of nfpm itself to see how to use it as a library, or, take a look at the nfpm pipe on GoReleaser.

Attention: GoReleaser deb packager only compiles with go1.10+.

Status

• both deb and rpm packaging are working but there are some missing features.

Special thanks

Thanks to the fpm authors for fpm, which inspires nfpm a lot.

Donate

Donations are very much appreciated! You can donate/sponsor on the main goreleaser opencollective! It's easy and will surely help the developers at least buy some ☕️ or 🍺!

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Documentation

Overview

Package nfpm provides ways to package programs in some linux packaging formats.

Index

• func Register(format string, p Packager)
• func Validate(info Info) error
• type Config
  • func Parse(in io.Reader) (config Config, err error)
  • func ParseFile(path string) (config Config, err error)
  • func (c *Config) Get(format string) (info Info, err error)
  • func (c *Config) Validate() error
• type Info
  • func WithDefaults(info Info) Info
• type Overridables
• type Packager
  • func Get(format string) (Packager, error)
• type Scripts

Functions

func Register

func Register(format string, p Packager)

Register a new packager for the given format

func Validate

func Validate(info Info) error

Validate the given Info and returns an error if it is invalid.

Types

type Config

type Config struct {
	Info      `yaml:",inline"`
	Overrides map[string]Overridables `yaml:"overrides,omitempty"`
}

Config contains the top level configuration for packages

func Parse

func Parse(in io.Reader) (config Config, err error)

Parse decodes YAML data from an io.Reader into a configuration struct

func ParseFile

func ParseFile(path string) (config Config, err error)

ParseFile decodes YAML data from a file path into a configuration struct

func (*Config) Get

func (c *Config) Get(format string) (info Info, err error)

Get returns the Info struct for the given packager format. Overrides for the given format are merged into the final struct

func (*Config) Validate

func (c *Config) Validate() error

Validate ensures that the config is well typed

type Info

type Info struct {
	Overridables `yaml:",inline"`
	Name         string `yaml:"name,omitempty"`
	Arch         string `yaml:"arch,omitempty"`
	Platform     string `yaml:"platform,omitempty"`
	Version      string `yaml:"version,omitempty"`
	Section      string `yaml:"section,omitempty"`
	Priority     string `yaml:"priority,omitempty"`
	Maintainer   string `yaml:"maintainer,omitempty"`
	Description  string `yaml:"description,omitempty"`
	Vendor       string `yaml:"vendor,omitempty"`
	Homepage     string `yaml:"homepage,omitempty"`
	License      string `yaml:"license,omitempty"`
	Bindir       string `yaml:"bindir,omitempty"`
}

Info contains information about a single package

func WithDefaults

func WithDefaults(info Info) Info

WithDefaults set some sane defaults into the given Info

type Overridables

type Overridables struct {
	Replaces     []string          `yaml:"replaces,omitempty"`
	Provides     []string          `yaml:"provides,omitempty"`
	Depends      []string          `yaml:"depends,omitempty"`
	Recommends   []string          `yaml:"recommends,omitempty"`
	Suggests     []string          `yaml:"suggests,omitempty"`
	Conflicts    []string          `yaml:"conflicts,omitempty"`
	Files        map[string]string `yaml:"files,omitempty"`
	ConfigFiles  map[string]string `yaml:"config_files,omitempty"`
	EmptyFolders []string          `yaml:"empty_folders,omitempty"`
	Scripts      Scripts           `yaml:"scripts,omitempty"`
}

Overridables contain the field which are overridable in a package

type Packager

type Packager interface {
	Package(info Info, w io.Writer) error
}

Packager represents any packager implementation

func Get

func Get(format string) (Packager, error)

Get a packager for the given format

type Scripts

type Scripts struct {
	PreInstall  string `yaml:"preinstall,omitempty"`
	PostInstall string `yaml:"postinstall,omitempty"`
	PreRemove   string `yaml:"preremove,omitempty"`
	PostRemove  string `yaml:"postremove,omitempty"`
}

Scripts contains information about maintainer scripts for packages