build-native-package

name	build-native-package
description	Build snapd native distribution packages (deb, rpm, pkg) using kulturysta. Use when building Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch, CentOS, or Amazon Linux packages.
metadata	{"project":"snapd","task-type":"build"}

Build package

Run from the workspace root, substituting the target directory name:

(
# e.g. fedora-44, replace with ubuntu-26.04, or debian-sid, or arch
cd packaging/fedora-44
../kulturysta           # full build with tests
../kulturysta --no-tests  # faster, skip tests
)

kulturysta must be invoked from inside the target packaging directory. It reads three shell code blocks from the README.md in that directory:

• ## Host Script — runs on the host; creates the .build/ directory structure
• ## Build Container — the podman run command used to launch the container
• ## Container Script — piped into the container on stdin; performs the actual build

Output lands in packaging/<target>/.build/.

Targets

Target	Output
ubuntu-26.04, ubuntu-16.04, debian-sid	.deb
fedora, fedora-44, fedora-42, fedora-latest, fedora-rawhide	.rpm
opensuse, opensuse-tumbleweed, opensuse-16.0	.rpm
centos-7, centos-9, amzn-2, amzn-2023	.rpm
arch	.pkg.tar.zst

Requirements

podman 5+. Named volumes cache package downloads across runs.

On failure

.build/ is preserved. Debs in .build/*.deb, RPMs in .build/RPMS/.