Spiff is a little
GPLed program I wrote to handle
packaging under
Linux, it's about 3KB in size (the tarball package is 3KB, with
readme,
setup script and program) and it can handle RPMs, source
tarballs and apt-get. It was initally made to automatically uncompress, configure, compile and install
.tar.*z source packages. It is invoked at the command line, like so:
spiff (package tag) (filename without extension) (other options)
Its main other strength is that, unless you tell it not to, Spiff
installs source packages into the /usr/spiff/ dir, giving nice easy
centralised installation.
The name, if you're interested, stands for Simplifying Packages In Four Formats and you can download it from
http://www.vjoebaldwin.co.uk/spiff/.