Ph0enixKM
[Feature] Generate with CI RPM/DEB packages
How useful is this? Having RPMs outside of distributions' repos is not optimal, because they won't receive updates without a repo. Generating single RPM for all RPM distributions (Fedora, Arch, openSUSE, RHEL, CentOS, etc) is also not really possible AFAIK — they have too many differences, despite using same file format for packages.
P.S. Same for deb
So as Debian user I can say that we just need the same binary we compile with cargo has doesn't have any dependence on something else so it should work everywhere.
We right now can start with the deb package and in the future we can see for a repository, a lot of projects on github release a deb/rpm package without a repository.
Publishing a package to Debian repositories seems to be troublesome: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/620698 But that will make it propagate to its derivatives, incl. Ubuntu and its derivatives. There's also a risk of making it into stable repositories before we reach first stable release, which will make it stay like that for the life of that Debian version.
Indeed we can think about crete our own repository in the future. I am more right now on step 1, do the packages.
Just for documentation sake, when we will have the deb package I can host the debian repository on my server.
A tool to help with that https://github.com/aptly-dev/aptly
I did a PR for the deb package in the meantime, we provide packages for Nix so why not also for debian based distro?
So the debian support it's in the CI for the next release and probably I will do a debian repository on my personal server. Anyway I am closing it as there isn't so much requests for the rpm package right now.