MultiMC wrapper packages for Linux

The source of every Linux package of MultiMC: the .deb, the .rpm and the AUR's multimc-bin. They all install the same small wrapper: run.sh, whose first start downloads the current Stable build of MultiMC into the user's data folder, plus the desktop file, icon, metainfo and man page.

Layout

• files/: everything that gets installed
• Makefile: what goes where (make install DESTDIR=...), the one list all formats use
• VERSION: the wrapper's version
• deb/, rpm/, arch/: each format's template (@VERSION@, ...) and the script that builds it inside its distribution's container
• build.py: builds them all

Desktop file, icon and metainfo are named org.multimc.MultiMC, the Launcher's Wayland app id, and the desktop file's StartupWMClass is its X11 window class: that's how docks and task managers find the icon for MultiMC's windows.

Building

You need Docker (or Podman: --engine podman) and network access for the distribution images.

./build.py

out/ then holds:

• multimc-wrapper-<version>.tar.gz: the source, reproducibly packed from the tracked files; the rpm and Arch packages build from it, so it is uploaded with them
• multimc_<version>-1.deb
• MultiMC5-<version>-1.*.noarch.rpm
• aur/PKGBUILD and aur/.SRCINFO: for the AUR's multimc-bin, checked by building the package and running namcap on it

Releasing

Change the files, raise VERSION, add an entry to the changelog in rpm/MultiMC5.spec.in, and push. The build server (hopper's Laminar job packages-production) builds every commit of master with build.py; for a version that isn't published yet it puts the tarball, .deb and .rpm on https://files.multimc.org/downloads/ and pushes PKGBUILD and .SRCINFO to the AUR's multimc-bin. A commit that doesn't raise VERSION is built and checked, and publishes nothing: a published version is never replaced.