packer(1) - Linux man page
Name
packer - a package generating tool
Synopsis
packer [ -drsaefbq ]
Description
When called with no options in the root directory of the sources for a program, packer will ask for
information neccessary to build a package. This information will be saved in the
packer directory in the working directory. The user can call packer
again with no options to make changes. Once packer has been run in this manner at least once, packer can be called with options.
Options
- -d
- Build files needed to build a debian package
- -r
- Build RPM spec files
- -s
- Generate a script for building a Slackware package
- -a
- Generate an Autopackage spec file
- -e
- Generate everything
- -f
- Delete already existing directories that are in the way of generated files
- -b
- Build packages from generated files.
- -q
- Include build depends in RPM spec files
Author
Written by Daniel Milstein, who may be contacted at dmilstein at the domain users.sourceforge.net.
See Also
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