Show HN: Build and distribute native Linux packages easily(omnipackage.org)
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Show HN: Build and distribute native Linux packages easily
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nice! I built one of these too and the thing that made it most useful was a GitHub action that other repos could use. You should put that on your backlog.
I tried initially making it an action itslef, but turns out there's not much to abstract into such action. Installing binary is not as smooth as running scripting languages, compiling Rust binary every time is long and wasteful. Just copy-paste a workflow file is easier and more flexible. For example: https://github.com/olegantonyan/bruno/blob/main/.github/work...
Maybe I missed something here
Omnipackage sits on top of existing infrastructure to build RPM, DEB, and Arch (more to come) packages and host them on your S3 or local filesystem. It's one config alongside the RPM spec and other templates that live in your project's repo, and it can run a build-sign-publish pipeline locally or on GitHub Actions.
You share with users a link to a generated HTML page with instructions on how to add the repository and install your app (example: https://repositories.omnipackage.org/omnipackage-rs/stable/i...), or just share the install instructions directly. Once hooked into the package manager, your app becomes apt-installable and updatable as if it were in the official repos. S3 isn't required - a local filesystem works as a repo too, handy if you want to package some app just for yourself or share it through other channels.
Think fpm and OpenBuildService had a baby. There's an "init" command that guesses how to build your project and generates the necessary files that you need to change slightly. There's also a Claude skill that does very well on most projects I've tried packaging. More rationale: https://omnipackage.org/about