Packaging software supported keywords

This page describes which general keywords are recognized by various flavours pf software packaging software. These are fields that are of general use; idiosyncratic fields (like dependency information in system packagers) are left out.

SCons packaging extension

Philipp Scholl's Google Summer of Code 2006 project (see PhilippSchollProposal)

Source: https://teco62pc.teco.edu/projects/Scholl_SummerOfCode/wiki/PackageMetaData

• Project name
• Version
• Package version (RPM release, .deb revision)
• Summary (possibly in different languages)
• Description (possibly in different languages)
• License
• License text
• Source URL
• Architecture
• URL
• Vendor
• Changelog

RPM

RPM package manager for managing binary software packages in Linux distribution, originally designed for Red Had Linux.

Source: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-tags.html

• Name
• Summary
• Epoch (number that's more important than version when calculating

which package is newer)

• Version
• Release (version of package)
• Copyright/License (synonyms)
• Group (for organizing software within distribution)
• Icon
• Vendor
• URL
• Packager (person that packaged software)
• Description

Dpkg

Debian's package manager for .deb files.

Source: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-controlfieldslist

• Source (source package's name)
• Package (binary package's name)
• Maintainer
• Uploaders (co-maintainers)
• Changed-By (usually same as Maintainer)
• Section (like RPM's Group)
• Priority (how important the package is for system)
• Architecture
• Essential
• Version (epoch:upstream_version-debian_revision)
• Description
• Distribution (which Debian lines package supports)
• Date (of last change)
• Urgency
• Changes (changelog)

ASDF

Common Lisp's Another System Definition Facility.

Source: http://constantly.at/lisp/asdf/

• Name
• Description
• Version
• Author
• Licence

Distutils

Python's standard packaging extension.

Source: http://docs.python.org/dist/module-distutils.core.html, PEP-314 at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0314/

• Name
• Version
• Description
• Long description
• Author
• Author email (separate from author)
• Maintainer (if left out, same as author)
• Maintainer email
• URL
• Download URL
• Classifiers (categories to which package belongs)
• License
• Keywords
• Platforms