Packaging and Dissemination: More Packages

[zeeshanlakhani]

Summary

We need to package homestar nodes (servers) for easier self-hosting.

Components

• [X] Docker container build (cross-arch)
• [x] Docker container pushed to hub & GitHub packages, tied to publishing of runtime version releases.
  • [x] Release-CI
• [x] Available for download (cross-arch,cross-comp) on GitHub releases.
• [x] brew (formula)
• [ ] pr/publish upstream official nix package
• [ ] Arch Linux User Repository - AUR Packages
  • https://github.com/fosskers/cargo-aur
• [ ] Windows installer(s) (msi)
  • https://github.com/volks73/cargo-wix
• [ ] Procedures/scripts for publishing to external distributions?

ETA: 2023-12-20

[bmann]

@walkah I'm trying out compiling the wasm functions in the homestar-functions directory. I think we might need to depend on rustup-init rather than rust for brew

Ref: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/3458

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