31 | The short answer is: probably not (yet). 32 |
33 |
34 | The a bit longer answer is that it will only run on platforms that have the pkgmk
and
35 | pkgtrans
tools installed in PATH. If you're on a platform without these tools installed
36 | natively you can try to install the tools from the
37 | Heirloom
38 | project.
39 |
41 | It wouldn't be very hard to implement a basic version of these tools in plain java, but it will take a bit 42 | of effort and not least testing. See the Developers page for more information 43 | about how to develop the plugin and specification of the package data stream format. 44 |
45 |27 | The unix-maven-plugin is a Maven plugin for producing installation packages for UNIX platforms. 28 |
29 |31 | The plugin currently support the following packaging formats and platforms: 32 |
33 |deb
- Debian and Debian-based platforms like Ubuntu
36 | pkg
- Platforms with System V packaging tools like Solaris and HP-UX. Only Solaris is tested.
39 | rpm
- RedHat, Fedora and other platforms using RPM. Many platforms have RPM even if they use
42 | another format as their primary format.
43 | zip
- Generic zip files. A better assembly plugin that the assembly plugin.
46 | 49 | Other features: 50 |
51 |61 | Make sure you read the Handbook. This contains all the information you need. 62 |
63 |27 | The documentation for the plugin is available in the handbook in three formats: 28 |
29 |