Talk:Deploying Your Application

An alternative to PackageMaker is Iceberg. I use this to create packages with remote access over an ssh connection (no gui). Advantages:

• it has a command line utility called 'freeze' to create the packages from the command line, so that package building can be automated.
• package file description is in xml format, so that it can be edited with any text editor.

I have read that the gui of Iceberg is better than PackageMaker, but since I haven't used PackageMaker's nor Iceberg's gui, I cannot comment on that. Vincent 09:22, 13 Feb 2006 (CET)

detecting arch

The Lazarus build scripts detect arch in the folowing way:

rpm --eval '%{_arch}'