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Packaging the app

This page is intended for individuals who wish to redistribute or package Beaver for package managers and platforms not yet supported. It is not intended for packaging releases of the app its

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The RPM package for macOS has been discontinued since October 2023. Therefore, the only way to build an RPM package on a Mac is by installing RPM through Homebrew, as indicated in this issue.

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A good example of how this guide should be used, even though it wasn't created using this guide, is the AUR repository packaged by a wonderful member of our community. Or the flatpak package the team has created.

Choose your platform​

Let's suppose you are here to package Beaver Notes for your favorite package manager, whether it's for 🐧 Linux, 🍎 macOS, or 🪟 Windows. The first thing you should do is check the package manager's website or repository for a documentation page. This will help you cover the steps we can't provide here due to the variety of package managers.

Useful Resources​

Usually you'll need the following to package an app:

  • Knowledge of the Language used by the package manager
  • The SHA256 of the original package or source code

You can get the SHA256 either from Beaver Note's release page or by running the following command in your terminal or Powershell.

🪟Windows

Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 "C:\Path\to\beaver-notes.exe"

🐧 Linux / 🍎 macOs

sha256sum shasum -a 256 path-to-Beaver-Notes

Example​

The following piece of code is an example of how a typical package manager manifest looks. Please note that this may vary from one package manager to another and is provided here for illustrative purposes only.

  version "1.0.0"
  sha256 "f19422c18c8a4455acb36e2feef8e778dd9d4c37298761aeb51c2995fcc26b18"

    url "https://github.com/Daniele-rolli/Beaver-Notes/releases/download/#{version}/Beaver-Notes-#{version}.dmg"
  name "Beaver Notes"
  desc "Your Personal Note-Taking Haven for Privacy
and Efficiency"
  homepage "https://beavernotes.com"
  depends_on arch: :intel

  app "Beaver-notes.app"
end

Link to this code snippet.

That's it you know known what you need to package Beaver Notes for your favorite repo.