Creating packages

This section shows how to create, build and test your packages.

• Getting started
  • Creating the package recipe
  • The test_package folder
  • Creating and testing packages
  • Settings vs. options
• Recipe and sources in a different repo
• Recipe and sources in the same repo
  • Exporting the sources with the recipe: exports_sources
  • Capturing the remote and commit from git: scm [EXPERIMENTAL]
• Packaging existing binaries
  • Packaging pre-built binaries
  • Downloading and Packaging pre-built binaries
• Understanding packaging
  • Manual package creation and testing
  • The package creation process
• Define package ABI compatibility
  • Defining a custom package_id()
  • The problem of dependencies
  • Using package_id() for package dependencies
• Inspecting packages
• Packaging approaches
  • 1 config (1 build) -> 1 package
  • N configs -> 1 package
  • N configs (1 build) -> N packages
• Tools for package creators