Development package builds

To ease the development and testing of local packaging changes, development-quality DEB or RPM packages can be built with one of the following scripts on a build host which already has all system build dependencies installed:

./packages/brpm --distro=redhat  # or --distro=suse to build an RPM
./packages/bddeb -d  # to build a DEB

OR if LXD is present, the full package build can be run in a container:

./tools/run-container ubuntu-daily:plucky --package --keep
./tools/run-container rockylinux/9 --package --keep

Note

meson support has not yet been added to the BSDs in tools/build-on-*bsd or meson.build.