Building Flatpak apps without flatpak-builder
11-09, 17:00–17:20 (UTC), Room 4

Flatpak-builder is a wrapper around various Flatpak commands to simplify packaging software including, but not limited to, from source. But what if your application is already built as part of CI/CD pipeline, or the host Linux distribution has user namespaces disallowed? Let's have a look at what flatpak-builder actually does and how to flatpak software from scratch.

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Maintainer of Flathub, app store and build service for Flatpak, member of GNOME Foundation, Site Reliability Engineer by trade. Spent the last 10 years maintaining packages for Arch Linux.