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Packaging software supported keywords

This page describes which general keywords are recognized by various flavours pf software packaging software. These are fields that are of general use; idiosyncratic fields (like dependency information in system packagers) are left out.

SCons packaging extension

Philipp Scholl's Google Summer of Code 2006 project (see PhilippSchollProposal)

Source: https://teco62pc.teco.edu/projects/Scholl_SummerOfCode/wiki/PackageMetaData

  • Project name
  • Version
  • Package version (RPM release, .deb revision)
  • Summary (possibly in different languages)
  • Description (possibly in different languages)
  • License
  • License text
  • Source URL
  • Architecture
  • URL
  • Vendor
  • Changelog

RPM

RPM package manager for managing binary software packages in Linux distribution, originally designed for Red Had Linux.

Source: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-tags.html

  • Name

  • Summary

  • Epoch (number that's more important than version when calculating which package is newer)

  • Version

  • Release (version of package)

  • Copyright/License (synonyms)

  • Group (for organizing software within distribution)

  • Icon

  • Vendor

  • URL

  • Packager (person that packaged software)

  • Description

Dpkg

Debian's package manager for .deb files.

Source: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-controlfieldslist

  • Source (source package's name)
  • Package (binary package's name)
  • Maintainer
  • Uploaders (co-maintainers)
  • Changed-By (usually same as Maintainer)
  • Section (like RPM's Group)
  • Priority (how important the package is for system)
  • Architecture
  • Essential
  • Version (epoch:upstream_version-debian_revision)
  • Description
  • Distribution (which Debian lines package supports)
  • Date (of last change)
  • Urgency
  • Changes (changelog)

ASDF

Common Lisp's Another System Definition Facility.

Source: http://constantly.at/lisp/asdf/

  • Name
  • Description
  • Version
  • Author
  • Licence

Distutils

Python's standard packaging extension.

Source: http://docs.python.org/dist/module-distutils.core.html, PEP-314 at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0314/

  • Name
  • Version
  • Description
  • Long description
  • Author
  • Author email (separate from author)
  • Maintainer (if left out, same as author)
  • Maintainer email
  • URL
  • Download URL
  • Classifiers (categories to which package belongs)
  • License
  • Keywords
  • Platforms
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