On 19 Mar 2019, at 9:48, vm-dev-request@lists.squeakfoundation.org wrote:
Hi Fabio,
Hi Max, It'd be great if we could use this to automatically produce Debian packages of all supported OSVMs.
Currently the script is very specific to linux64x64/pharo.cog.spur. Unfortunately, the mvm scripts alone currently don't suffice to produce working builds, which is why the CI scripts include much magic. If that magic were moved to the mvm scripts instead (or better yet, if the magic were no longer necessary) then producing a Debian package would more or less come down to executing the mvm script in an environment prepared for creating a Debian package; then our script wouldn't do more than prepare that environment.
In that world we could probably also have dedicated script for preparing environments for other Debian-like distros. But see about Flatpak below.
These packages should also work on Ubuntu and other Debian-like distros right?
In principal yes. Although every distro would probably need some adjustments w.r.t. the dependencies (OpenSSL, libSSH2, etc.).
What would it take to integrate your script into our current CI pipeline?
On our CI we create a chroot jail where we can install all of the dependencies. That is probably the main thing we'd need to build into the build process.
Where could the packages be hosted?
The packages could be hosted on launchpad: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas.
The alternative to Debian packages are Flatpaks (https://flatpak.org) (we're in the process of figuring out how to create those instead of Debian packages from the build). Flatpaks have the distinct advantage that they define their environment (their runtime) which is a way out of the dependency hell (no pollution of the host, no version mismatches, etc.). The other great advantage of Flatpaks is that they will run on any distro.
Flatpaks can be hosted on https://flathub.org.
I'll let you know when we've figured out the Flatpak creation.
Cheers, Max
Cheers, Fabio
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