Arto's Notes re: downstreams

Fink

• http://fink.thetis.ig42.org/
• http://fink.thetis.ig42.org/doc/quick-start-pkg/
• http://fink.thetis.ig42.org/doc/packaging/

Homebrew

• https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew
• https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/Acceptable-Formulae.md

MacPorts

• https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
• https://guide.macports.org/#project.contributing
• https://guide.macports.org/#development.creating-portfile
• https://guide.macports.org/#development.practices

Arch Linux

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Linux#ABS
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Linux#Pacman
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_packages
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_packaging_standards
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Sharing_and_maintaining_packages
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Namcap
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_packages_for_other_distributions

CentOS/RHEL

• http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos#head-70ff04f00f6b441f231663b09d7716f4f771a436
• http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories

CRUX

• https://crux.nu/portdb/

Debian

• https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq
• https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
• https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#newpackage

Fedora

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_Maintainers
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Review_Process

Gentoo/Funtoo

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_(software)

OpenSUSE

• https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Packaging
• https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines
• https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Shared_library_packaging_policy

Source Mage/Lunar Linux

_Both these distros seem to be stagnant/moribund as of April 2015._

• http://wiki.lunar-linux.org/Module_Basics
• http://wiki.lunar-linux.org/Module_Writing
• http://wiki.lunar-linux.org/Module_Submission
• https://github.com/lunar-linux/moonbase-other

Ubuntu

• http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/packaging-new-software.html
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages

FreeBSD Ports

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Ports
• https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
• https://www.freebsd.org/ports/
• https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports

NetBSD Packages Collection

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkgsrc
• http://www.pkgsrc.org/
• http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/developers-guide.html

OpenBSD Ports

• http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/