Pakste

.deb/.rpm packaging & repository publishing toolkit leveraging Github Actions & Github Pages.

Documentation	Pakste Manual
Repository	Pakste on GitHub
Author	kakwalab © 2025
License	MIT

Presentation

Pakste is a toolkit for developers packaging software for Debian and Red Hat-based distributions. It provides reasonably consistent and reproducible package builds across different distribution & version, without the hassle of setting up and maintaining build servers.

Key features:

• Wrapper & integration between .rpm and .deb build & repo management tools, providing easier to remember commands like make rpm_repo or make deb_repo.

• Helpers to easily package upstream repositories with a good level reproducibility.

• Multi-Distribution & CPU Architecture targeting thanks to mock/pbuilder & binfmt respectively.

• Build dependencies consistency, again, thanks to mock/pbuilder and their disposable build containers.

• Github Action Workflow for automated builds and publication via Github Pages (easily customizable for other destinations).

Example projects:

• Debian/Ubuntu packaging for RPM/Mock.

• Misc Open Feature Flag packages.

• Packages for the author’s projects.

• Misc packages from upstream projects.

Table Of Content

• Getting Started
  • Build Dependencies
  • Repository Initialization
• Packaging
  • Overview
  • Creating Packages
  • Building Packages
  • Makefile Setup
  • Version Specific Packaging
  • External Packaging Documentation
• Repository
  • GitHub Actions & Github Pages Automation
  • Building Locally
• Optional Setup
  • Updating Pakste
  • Sudoers Configuration
  • Adding Vulnerability Monitoring
  • Internet Access During Build
  • TMPFS
  • GPG Key
  • Embedding Pakste in your project
• Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting The Build
  • Checksum Error
  • Repository Key Issues
  • Building on old distributions
• Reference
  • Makefile Targets
  • Package Initialization Tool
  • Makefile Helper Variables
  • Pakste Common Commands
  • Internal Scripts