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The Universal Packaging Tool
upt
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Sep 08, 2018
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Cyril Roelandt
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Mention fpm in README.md.
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@@ -363,6 +363,20 @@ Please tell us about your own frontends/backends!
## Similar projects
### Generic tools
[
fpm
](
https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
)
(
Effing
package management) is a tool
quite similar to upt. It can turn packages from PyPI/RubyGems/etc. into packages
for Debian/Fedora/etc. It features a unified command-line interface, a common
behaviour for all target distributions, and a modular design.
The main difference with upt is that it does not generate the "source" of a
package, but rather an installable package: it will generate a deb file rather
than a debian/ directory, an rpm file rather than a spec file, etc. See
[
this
comment on the bug
tracker
](
https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/issues/1507#issuecomment-411390171
)
for more information.
### Per-distribution tools
Here are some tools used to turn a package from a language-specific archive to
a package suitable for a general purpose package manager. We can see that
[
GNU
Guix
](
https://www.gnu.org/s/guix
)
,
[
NetBSD
](
https://www.netbsd.org/
)
and
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