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Re:Show HN: Fast native RPM building from any distro, for an... by alanfranzoni on Friday February 06, 2015 @02:04PM (#9010853)
You could use fpm.

But the point is: can you pack every single dependency in your project? Usually you'll need something from the outside distro (libc usually). Then if you're building on a different host than your target, you may experience issues or different runtime behaviour.

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Re:Show HN: Fast native RPM building from any distro, for an... by twic on Saturday February 07, 2015 @10:43AM (#9014256)
It depends what you're packaging. C/C++ code linked against dynamic libraries? Yes, you're going to struggle to package reliably without using the native tools. Java code packaged as a bundle of jars, with no dependency except a JVM? Go code compiled statically, with no dependency except libc? Simple portable packaging should do the job.
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