Packaging for distributions

MALT provide the necessary script to generate the packages for common distributions. You will find here the procedure to follow to build them.

Archive from the git sources

Before following the rest of this document you need either to:

• Download an official release tarball.

• Generate the release tarball.

To generate from the git sources :

./dev/dev.py archive --commit v1.4.0 --version 1.4.0 --no-hash

Gentoo

On Gentoo you can directly use the Overlay provided on the web : https://github.com/memtt/gentoo-memtt-overlay

The usage procedure is given here :

sudo eselect repository add memtt git https://github.com/memtt/gentoo-memtt-overlay.git
sudo eselect repository enable memtt
sudo emerge -a malt

RPM : Fedora and others

If you want to build your package for Fedora or related RPM based distribution, you can follow the given commands.

# Extract the packging dir if you are not in git sources
tar --strip-components 1 -xvf malt-1.4.0.tar.bz2 malt-1.4.0/packaging/fedora

# build the podman image
podman build -t malt/fedora-rpmbuild -f packaging/fedora/Dockerfile

# Call the script inside docker
podman run --rm -ti -v .:/sources:rw malt/fedora-rpmbuild /sources/packaging/fedora/build.sh 1.4.0

APT : Debian and others

If you want to build your package for Debian, Ubuntu or related APT based distributions, you can follow the given commands.

# Extract the packging dir if you are not in git sources
tar --strip-components 1 -xvf malt-1.4.0.tar.bz2 malt-1.4.0/packaging/debian

# build the podman image
podman build -t malt/debian-debbuild -f packaging/debian/Dockerfile

# Call the script inside docker
podman run --rm -ti -v .:/sources:rw malt/debian-debbuild /sources/packaging/debian/build.sh 1.4.0