Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint Subject: Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 10:05:12 -0700 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <10sv5o0$ctcs$1@dont-email.me> <10t0p4a$11f5l$2@dont-email.me> <10t17ku$154b3$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net yYuF7yE34HhWVqSUQFoq2AuoiWiUi8XJqqaFLRf1glTeLGUeYS Cancel-Lock: sha1:OZBtT2vTB3RdNl1PYUqfUmftAKo= sha256:wcajpcYQgj3TkMR33/2uc0aovqNJQ1lQb1I+vB+0Mxk= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.mint:47303 Mike Easter wrote: > I /was/ going to make something packaged out of what I had, such as > a .deb or other packaging, but my first attempt of that didn't want > to go anywhere. > > I left that setup alive and may work on it some more today. I'm learning about Open Build Service; originating w/ OpenSUSE, but more generic now. > an open and complete distribution development platform designed to > encourage developers to compile packages for multiple Linux > distributions including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, openSUSE, Red > Hat Enterprise Linux, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch > Linux.[2] It typically simplifies the packaging process, so > developers can more easily package a single program for many > distributions According to the OBS docs, one can choose which package format they want as the result; rpm, deb, or arch. -- Mike Easter