Jordan Sissel

Not sure. I've never used openSUSE Build Service. Does anyone have experience with this and maybe can help comment here?

ffi was removed in #1796, so I don't think this PR is needed anymore.

hmm, ar failed. Weird! Can you rerun with --debug and paste the output here or in a gist?

Ahha, interesting: ``` ar: /debtest_1.0_amd64.deb: Permission denied {:level=>:info, :file=>"cabin/mixins/pipe.rb", :line=>"46"} ``` Something is somehow causing us to run ar with no notion of a temporary folder. Definitely a bug. Can...

I can reproduce your error if my $PWD is / (top level root directory): ``` % cd / % fpm -s empty -t deb -n "debtest" -v 1.0 Process failed:...

Sweet! I can work on improving the error message here to indicate that fpm would fail because $PWD isn't writable.

(also, if you have thoughts on what behavior is desirable under this condition, I'm open to it)

Confirmed, thank you for the link to the docs! +1 on adding zstd support

@coleplx Thank you for helping improve fpm! I think I'd like some more information -- Your summary talks about the acceptable values for versions, but your patch affects the package...

I haven’t tested this, but the change seems like it’s a good solution. @JordanStopford you ok with me merging?