Packaging

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Packaging

Standards

File locations, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

The directory structure of openSUSE must adhere to the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). You can find it under http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ .

Linux Standard Base, LSB

The goal of the LSB is to develop and promote a set of standards that will increase compatibility between Linux distributions. The LSB is important for ISVs to define a runtime environment that they can rely on for cross distribution building. Further details can be found at http://www.linuxbase.org/ .

Policies

This is a collection of Policies which are recommended for packaging for openSUSE.

• Shared Library Packaging Policy

Common Packaging Guidelines

This is the guide how to build openSUSE packages:

• SUSE Package Conventions

Additional information about detailed can be found here:

• Common SUSE Packaging Macros explained
• How to handle Package Dependencies
• How to save disk space by symlinking licenses

RPM Lint

It is useful to check openSUSE packages with the rpmlint package from openSUSE Factory to get hints where the packaging could be improved. Note that rpmlint hasn't been invented for openSUSE originally, there might be still cases left where it complains about something that doesn't comply to common openSUSE packaging. The openSUSE rpmlint maintainer is very responsive to bugreports, so please enter a bugreport if you think that the behavior could be improved in any way.

RPM Lint checks with badness in SUSE Factory build

External Links

• RPM's homepage
• Fedora's RPM Guide, by Eric Foster-Johnson
• Wikipedia article about RPM