Systems Administration DevOps Security

Creating a signed RPM with nFPM and GnuPG

Published · updated · 8min

I have a need to be able to build a signed RPM, which isn’t something I’ve done before.The RPM that I need is a simple one that’s well-suited to nFPM, which supports building signed RPMs. nFPM definitely isn’t the hard part here: the hard part …

Python Hacks Tools DevOps

Building Python fat RPMs with nfpm and some magic

Published · updated · 4min

I’d an awkward problem to solve recently: how do you build a relatively cross-platform fat RPM for a Python application without having to build out a bunch of extra build infrastructure.

On the face of it, this is easy, and this is something I’ve partially solved before. I …