Debian Packaging?

[deknos]

Hi, is there any chance you'll provide packaging for debian or ubuntu?

[idroz]

Hi there!

First, thanks for trying out Bravetools. In short, there are plans to provide deb packaging through a custom PPA. This feature is a little bit further down the list. We're currently prioritising automated multi-host container deployments and a few other features.

If there's a good case for pushing deb packaging further up the list, we can include that in our next feature release this month.

[idroz]

@Szubie wanted to bump this up for our 2.0 release

[JayBusch]

would this also include removing the requirement for Snap based LXD?

I prefer Debian to Ubuntu and have no interest in installing Snap on any system. I would really like to use and help develop bravetools as this seems like a much needed application.

I will look and see if I can PR a fork that doesn't have this limitation, but any help or direction will of course be much appreciated.

[idroz]

We started looking at this a while ago and settled on using GoReleaser (https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser), but were side-tracked with all the remotes features to take advantage of remote builds and deployments.

There are already a number of blueprints available for debian packaging in the repo:

• https://github.com/bravetools/bravetools/blob/master/nfpm.yaml
• https://github.com/bravetools/bravetools/blob/master/.lintian-overrides
• https://github.com/bravetools/bravetools/blob/master/.chglog.yml

Unfortunately we don't have yet an end-to-end script that would pull all of this together into a debian package and any help would be greatly appreciated :)

[idroz]

Also worth a mention that Bravetools doesn't require snap LXD installed. Any LXD client available to your user will do.

[JayBusch]

Ok great! I will look into goreleaser and the current state of the scripts.

I am little confused regarding the requirement or lack there of for snap. In attempting to run my first "bravetools build" command I was greeted with: 2024/02/16 19:40:13 Get "http://unix.socket/1.0": dial unix /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/unix.socket: connect: no such file or directory

I do have a functioning lxd client and service installed, but by apt and not snap.

If I am missing something I apologize, but it appears to me that the brave binary is looking to open a socket it expects the lxd service installed by snap to have created.