Experiment: Repackage .deb builds as mozillavpn-beta #9820
Conversation
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
oskirby
force-pushed
the
deb-repackage-beta
branch
from
25b6c99
to
7424bb3
Compare
After having a read through of the official Debian package format (see man deb(5)) it seems there are a couple of nuances to how the archive is created. We should probably be using the official tool, dpkg-deb, to manipulate packages to ensure that we create it correctly.
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Description
This is a bit of an experiment to see if we can run a repackage step on our Static debian builds to make it possible publish them in the Mozilla APT repository alongside the release builds, similar to how Firefox nightly is published.
The idea is that our release candidates can get repackaged as
mozillavpn-betaand then use the DebianProvides: mozillavpnto make it an alias for the release builds.Reference
Checklist