posted in Technology
I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh)
getfresh.dev/docs/blog/packaging-for-linux/No automatic updates for .deb / .rpm
The author seems to have completely missed the point that they can just publish their own repositories to allow users on both of these platforms to update. It would also mean they could avoid the problems they’re having building source packages.
Their complaints about supporting instalations with older libc versions are also addressable by just building against the oldest libc they wish to support.
Replying to @notabot@piefed.social
Can’t you just put all your packages in the same repository but different directories? Example: debian/.deb, fedora/.rpm, appimage/appimage…
Sort of, but each of them uses a different way of making the repository, so really it’s more a case of different repositories in different directories, but they can all be on the same website.