Notes on Software Packaging

I'm using this page to keep notes on the wonderful world of software packaging / distribution.

Tools

rpmbuild : Tool used to create RPMs, taking into account dependency resolution.
alien : Allows you to convert RPMs to Debian packages. Doesn't take into account dependencies.
CPack : Allows you to create multiple package formats from the same source code.
Python's distutils can be used to create RPM packages. (see here too)
stdeb can also be used with distutils to create Debian packages (see here too).
PyInstaller. See issue with wx here