Building native packages is complicated
xeiaso.net
Especially if you want a UX as good as Docker images give you.

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This blog post is about Xe’s reasoning for originally only providing docker packages and their work to provide native packages.

  • corsicanguppyEnglish
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    21 days ago

    a tool that allows you to build packages for multiple systems in multiple formats (deb, rpm, nix, flatpak, snap, etc.).

    Given flatpaks and snaps are toxic, the other ones - deb, rpm, pkg - can be packaged relatively easily. It’s all a separate effort with files and meta-info that doesn’t often intersect, but it’s manageable. It lends itself incredibly well to the trivial ‘automation’ that gitlab, forgejo and other major git suites provide.

    Source: did this for the entirety I built and maintained a software suite for linux and unix, for like 15 years. I built some code, I packaged it. Because anything less isn’t really ISO27002.

    TL;DR - the ‘tool’ is a simple script and your brain. the biggest hurdle is the unknown itself and, once you get to it, the work can be pretty straightforward.