ambakshi/brew-fpm repository overview

⁠brew-fpm

This tap is based on timsutton/brew-pkg⁠ brew-fpm is a Homebrew external command that builds an OS installer package from a formula using Jordan Sissel's excellent FPM⁠

The formula must first already be installed on the system via brew install <pkg> before you can brew fpm <package>.

⁠Usage

Assuming nginx is already installed:

brew fpm nginx

==> Creating package staging root using Homebrew prefix /usr/local
==> Staging formula nginx
==> Building package nginx-1.2.6.deb

It can also automatically include the formula's dependencies:

brew fpm --with-deps --without-kegs ffmpeg

==> Creating package staging root using Homebrew prefix /usr/local
==> Staging formula ffmpeg
==> Staging formula texi2html
==> Staging formula yasm
==> Staging formula x264
==> Staging formula faac
==> Staging formula lame
==> Staging formula xvid
==> Building package ffmpeg-1.1.deb

By default behaviour brew fpm include all package kegs located in /usr/local/Cellar/packagename. If you need to exclude it, specify option --without-kegs

⁠Installing it

brew-fpm is available from my formulae tap⁠. Add the tap:

brew tap ambakshi/formulae

Then install as any other formula:

brew install brew-fpm

⁠Extras

You can set any custom fpm argument with the --fpm-arg option which is just literally passed through to the fpm command. For more information refer to man fpm.

⁠Use docker

The included Makefile builds an EL7 image with linuxbrew, brew and brew-fpm

make image
make run
make exec

This gives you a persistent $HOME inside the container. After the make exec you'll be inside the EL7 container. Do a brew install curl and brew fpm curl to get a curl el7 rpm, linked statically. The first time the build will take a bit longer, because many low level dependencies (such as autoconf, m4, etc) are missing. Subsequent packages build much faster. Your host directory is mounted to /host. Run the brew fpm command in that directory to have your packages available on the host. You can use this technique to build other containers for EL6, Ubuntu, etc. Patches welcome :)

⁠Issues

• I've never written any Ruby in my life. This is cobbled together from timsutton/brew-pkg, which does pkg file creating. Since FPM can do this, is it strict necessary?
• All packages use a prefix of /usr/local, insead of the tradition /usr. Existing OS packages are correctly replaced/updated, but the location isn't what one would expect.
• To properly build rpm's from an Ubuntu host (or visa versa) you need to do it on a EL host, especially for EL6 where libc version is different. I'm doing it with docker containers locally. So while you can specify --rpm on a Debian host, the package may not come up too healthy :)

⁠License

brew-fpm is MIT-licensed⁠.