Packaging distributions

General information on packaging your distributions in packages.

Packaging Types

• Automatic
• Manual

Automatic Packages

Packages with this type creates automaticly. By default the distribution have a one main package. You can configure it using Controll of packages options.

Example (Set new name for pacakge)

ctdeployer ... -name "MyPackage"

If your distribution have a multiple executable files then you can be create a distribution with multiple package.

One package can contain from 1 to infinity of executable files.

For configure a package you must be use the targetPackage option.

Example of using:

cqtdeployer ... -targetPackage myPacage;target1,myPacage2;target2

Where myPacage is a name of package and target1 is a name of executable file. so This example create 2 packages from 2 targets.

The Next example create a 2 packages from 3 targets.

cqtdeployer ... -targetPackage myPacage;target1,myPacage;target2,myPacage2;target3

You can also do the same in the config file

{
"targetPackage": [
        [
            "myPacage",
            "target1"
        ],
        [
            "myPacage2",
            "target2"
        ]
    ]
}

{
"targetPackage": [
        [
            "myPacage",
            "target1"
        ],
        [
            "myPacage",
            "target2"
        ],
        [
            "myPacage2",
            "target3"
        ]
    ]
}

Manual Packages

Manual packages is packages created by user template. For example you have a aplication that must be execute a complex script on the debian package or the installer. So you need to create your template and add tehe path to you template for a package option.

Example

cqtdeployer ... -qif /path/to/my/template/installer

The /path/to/my/template/installer folder must be contains a folder with the package name. for example i am deploy application with the "MyExample" name, so my custom template must be locate in the /path/to/my/template/installer/MyExample path.

For multi-package distributions, the same rules apply.

Your folder with the templates must be contains folders with same names as packages.

Example:

{
"targetPackage": [
        [
            "myPacage",
            "target1"
        ],
        [
            "myPacage",
            "target2"
        ],
        [
            "myPacage2",
            "target3"
        ]
    ]
}

~/path/to/my/template/installer$ tree 
.
├── myPacage
│   └── ...
└── myPacage2
    └── ...

Note

You can also extract the standard package template in order to override it if for some reason you are not satisfied with the standard implementation. See this page for details on how to do this

Available packages

• Qt Install Framework
• ZIP Arhive
• DEB Package