Linux packages

[Daniel15]

It would be good to have Linux packages available, at least .deb and .rpm versions. I don't know anyone that uses Linuxbrew, it doesn't seem ideal on Linux when better solutions exist.

The HHVM team distribute Linux packages, you could probably see how they do it.

[diwu1989]

+1
linuxbrew?! wat is that?! Make it work with apt-get please.

[gutenye]

For ArchLinux, Install it by $ pacaur -S fpp

[pcottle]

Yeah this would be sweet, ill have to ask around internally since i have no idea how to build / release a linux package. @Daniel15 let me know if you have any names in mind for people we can bug :)

[Daniel15]

I have no idea either :D I think @ptarjan and @jwatzman maintain the HHVM packaging scripts so they might know how to get started with this.

[jwatzman]

https://github.com/hhvm/packaging/blob/master/hhvm/deb/package is how HHVM does it -- that runs on a cronjob on a VM on a Mac Pro under someone's desk :-P Someone was in the process of writing a proper Debian package, which might be the way to go -- AIUI it isn't actually that hard, and has a lot better tooling than some random shell script, Debian is actually quite good at that sort of thing. As for the actual builds, last I heard the sandcastle/Fog team(s) were working on getting Debian VMs on Sandcastle so we can do our CI/builds that way; I got access to a couple VMs but never really got it set up, and haven't heard anything more about the actual infra and CI stuff there.

Feel free to grab me in the office if you want to chat; sometime May 25 or after would be best unless this is urgent, I'm working on the HHVM lockdown right now.

[jwatzman]

But you're going to have a much easier time since it looks like this is just pure python, right? Most of the HHVM complexity has to do with supporting finding several third-party libraries (or building new enough versions of them if the distro's is too old) for C++ compilation, and then generalizing that over a bunch of different supported versions of Debian and Ubuntu.

[lsmag]

There's also (fpp-git)[https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fpp-git/] in AUR which installs PathPicker directly from github's master.

Also, maybe it's better not to point pacaur as the package manager? I use aurapm, for example.

[pcottle]

Oh thanks for the tip @lsmag . I'd be fine with pointing towards fpp-git in AUR since we won't have to worry about updating the release (downside is that it'll run a less stable version of the code, aka master)

Anyone have any objections to pointing to fpp-git? Or should we do that + pacaur?

Also thanks @jwatzman for the comment! Will ping you if we don't get any community contributions that work. I do agree that this is much easier than building hhvm releases

[Daniel15]

We should still make .deb and .rpm packages for distros that use those.

[lsmag]

I believe most Arch users know how to install an AUR package, so I don't believe favouring a certain package manager is good (and there are many )

[Daniel15]

Yes, Debian users don't use AUR packages though. Not everyone uses Arch :)

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I believe most Arch users know how to install an AUR package, so I don't
believe favouring a certain package manager is good (and there are many
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers#AUR_search.2Fbuild_helpers
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[lsmag]

Yep @Daniel15 , I was only answering @pcottle 's question regarding AUR or AUR+pacaur ;)

[Daniel15]

Oh right 👍